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So today I ordered a HyperX Fury 240GB SSD, and later I stumbled upon a few articles about power outages and them killing SSD's. I'm in a power outage prone zone so should I be worried? And how could I prevent that?
 
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An SSD is no more or less susceptible to a sudden power loss as anything else in your PC.

Now...the data on it might get corrupted. But that can (and does) happen with a traditional HDD as well.

Should you be worried?
No more than with any other drive.
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A power outage just cuts of the power. What you need to look out for are power spikes. Those will damage or kill the psu which can then kill the other parts of your pc. The psu regulates the power so that nothing gets to much but if it becomes defective it can start giving of the wrong voltages and such and kill your components. These articles were probably talking about this. Some ups have a power regulator and make it so that the incoming power stays stable and doesn't spike.
 
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An SSD is no more or less susceptible to a sudden power loss as anything else in your PC.

Now...the data on it might get corrupted. But that can (and does) happen with a traditional HDD as well.

Should you be worried?
No more than with any other drive.
 
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you have no idea how much have you just relieved me
 
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Of my systems here in the house, I have 6 SSDs, soon to be 7. 4 in my main system, others scattered about.
I would not build another main use system without out one or more.
 
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I have a laptop that no longer has a working battery with a SSD in it (an old Crucial M500). I've knocked the plug out tons of times with it on, even while doing disk-intensive things. It's been fine - no corrupted data...nothing more than Windows being like 'hey, you turned this thing off unexpectedly'.
 
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Do you have any links to these articles?
You have to read these with a very critical eye.


(off on a similar tangent)
There were a few articles yelling about if you leave them powered off, they lose data.
OK, maybe.
If there were some small contrived set of conditions. Time, temp, how full it is, how old it is, etc, etc

...then some small percentage of drives would begin to lose data.

But no, the headline screams..."SATA SSDs lose data if you leave them turned off!"

Original claims: SSDs lose data if left without power for just 7 days
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ssds-lose-data-if-left-without-power-just-7-days-1500402
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/205382-ssds-can-lose-data-in-as-little-as-7-days-without-power
http://www.zdnet.com/article/solid-state-disks-lose-data-if-left-without-power-for-just-a-few-days/

(Note that the referenced original article no longer exists)

Debunked here http://www.anandtech.com/show/9248/the-truth-about-ssd-data-retention
and here http://www.itworld.com/article/2921047/hardware/no-you-wont-lose-data-on-your-ssd-if-you-leave-it-off-for-a-week.html
and here https://www.wiredtree.com/blog/solid-state-drives-dont-actually-have-a-data-retention-problem/
 
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