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What does unsafe shutdown mean?

Mark Kaine
By Mark Kaine
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1 hour ago, Mark Kaine said:

i can pretty much guarantee the pc didn't crash once since this drive is installed,  so what does it mean and is it dangerous? 

 

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Unsafe shutdown is anything that was not proper shutdown. If you've ever held down the power button till it turned off, that would be unsafe shutdown.

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25 minutes ago, BiotechBen said:

Unsafe shutdown is anything that was not proper shutdown. If you've ever held down the power button till it turned off, that would be unsafe shutdown.

hmm i see... i did this a lot*... but not since this drive was installed afaik (now im of course not sure anymore 🤔)

 

*like 99% because of mods, sometimes things just clash or are outright broken  - but the thing is my current game i can just force close if it crashes. 

 

well now im curious my other drives should show hundreds of those then... probably!  😅

 

but... its not dangerous,  right? i mean nothing ever happened there are measures to prevent data loss... or maybe i need to change something in BIOS?

 

On my old motherboard hotswap was on for example,  pretty sure its off on this new one and im not sure thats a good idea.

 

 

ps: but yeah, that's the thing my other drives dont have this ?

 

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(this is the mx500)

 

 

EDIT: yeah... this isnt good, i think i should turn on hotswap anyways... i mean what happens when a drive randomly physically disconnects while the pc is on?

 

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no offense to whoever wrote this for example but i think thats a load of nonsense... pretty sure a friend told me way back to always turn on hotswap,  for exactly that reason (its just safer in case of crashes,  disconnects, etc)

 

i definitely had it on for years and nothing ever happened (and yes my drives *did* randomly disconnect while pc was on a few times 🤔)

 

ps: THAT actually happened on this motherboard too, but not with the nvme funny enough lol... 👀 

The direction tells you... the direction. 

-Scott Manley, 2021

 

 

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