We have situations here where the power goes off and on 10 times in 5 seconds, or as I like to call them, refrigerator salesmen's specials. There would be a market here for capacitors the size of pickup trucks.
A dozen times a year I am awakened by the UPS screaming, so I go downstairs and do an orderly shutdown of the desktop Linux machine. But learning that an untidy shutdown of a RPi can wreck the SSD was new to me, and a little frightening. The hygiene needed to prevent it ought to be a little better publicized, or, hey, here's an idea, SSD makers ought to make more robust products.
A dozen times a year I am awakened by the UPS screaming, so I go downstairs and do an orderly shutdown of the desktop Linux machine. But learning that an untidy shutdown of a RPi can wreck the SSD was new to me, and a little frightening. The hygiene needed to prevent it ought to be a little better publicized, or, hey, here's an idea, SSD makers ought to make more robust products.
Statistics: Posted by RealNameTBA — Sun May 05, 2024 10:09 pm