Comment by jb1991
4 years ago
> Of course, in normal usage, this is basically never an issue on laptops; given the right software hooks, they should never run out of power before the OS has a chance to issue a disk flush command
4 years ago
> Of course, in normal usage, this is basically never an issue on laptops; given the right software hooks, they should never run out of power before the OS has a chance to issue a disk flush command
Unless of course your kernel panics. (Although there may still be a best-effort flush here, so it probably depends on how exactly it dies)
But since I only use Mac desktops.....
I guess a UPS powerbackup would be useful. Laptops basically have built-in UPS which is perhaps why Apple has gone in that direction. I wonder if their high-end desktops with Apple Silicon will do something different there.
An UPS won't help though unless you program your Mac to check the UPS status and flush accordingly.
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