I lived 8 years with HDD’s, every time when there was a power outage or for whatever reason I had to force shutdown the computer by turning off the PSU or pushing that fancy yet dangerous restart button on the PC Case my heart would race in fear for what gonna happens next, will Windows give me error during or after boot that my computer needs repair or will it just boot normally? 70% of the times it was the first case.
Living with SSD’s for about 9 months so far (the terrible startup speed of Visual Studio 2022 with HDD’s finally forced me to buy an SSD), during this time the computer had around 8 times of sudden unexpected shutdowns and none of them resulted in Windows Boot errors or critical system files corruption (by habit, I tried SFC and DISM everytime to make sure the OS is healthy).
Counting the amount of incidents and getting surprised that none of them forced me to repair or change my Windows installation, I searched online a bit about it but all the topics I encountered was about the durability of SSD’s and similar topics but not related to what I’m describing (I’m lazy btw, didn’t dig too much online), so I decided to start a topic about it on my own.
So, does anybody know and care to explain for everybody’s knowledge that why this happens? Is it because of the fast nature of SSD that it gets enough time to complete I/O cycles before it loses the last wattage of power those results in avoiding file corruption?
I think it’s also worth mentioning that I used GPT with SSD but always used MBR partition table with HDD’s.
