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Does holding power button to shut down damage hardware?

fc86szy
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‎12-21-2023 09:16 AM
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Does holding power button to shut down damage hardware?

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AlHill
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‎12-21-2023 09:21 AM
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On what?   A 50-ton generator, or a computer?   If computer, then the answer is NO.

 

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n_scott_pearson
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‎12-21-2023 01:58 PM
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What it does mean, however, is that power is abruptly yanked from all attached drives and thus corruption of the data on the drives is possible. It can also cause physical failures in older spinning media drives.

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AlHill
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‎12-21-2023 02:58 PM
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They would have be very old spinning media drives.

 

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