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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

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kevincox  4 years ago

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)

simonh  4 years ago

But since I only use Mac desktops.....

  • jb1991  4 years ago

    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.