Hard boots ssd

simple question, is a ssd more or less inclined than a mechanical drive to have errors from repeated hard/cold booting over time?

If you power off the computer in the middle of a "write" cycle and that cycle can not be completed - I'd say same-same, the file will be corrupted. Many of the newer SSDs now have a "large" Capacitor with enough energy to complet the write cycle if in the middle of the write. In this case the SSD is less suseptable to corruption. This is harder to do for a Mechanical HDD as considerably more energy is required.

was hoping you would respond chief, saw you posting recently...you usually know what you're talking about. unfortunately this information is too specific, i'm looking for a more general answer, which addresses long term usage. the constant firing up and powering down on the hard drives (if you look at the official documentation) this has a degradation effect....seems to be two sides of the argument, some say it doesn't matter as much anymore because of the sophistication of the components....ideally they want people using all of the throttling and sleep states, which i use none of.

The main limitation for SSDs is the limited number of write cycles that can be done before it starts to fail. The good news is that you would have to do a LOT of writing to a SSD to hit that limitation. Due to no moving parts vs. moving parts SSDs should live longer than standard HDDs.

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