Comment by gruez

>Contractor: "Hi, we need to kill the power to the house now."

>Me: "Oh, ok, let me shut down my computer."

and they're killing the power 0.1 seconds after you told them the computer is shut down? If the drive only lost the last 2 or 3 seconds of writes, you'll be fine.

>And, everything I've been reading lately is simply that there's nothing safe about this. How is shutting down a computer ever safe now? How long do we have to wait to ensure our data is flushed correctly, by everything?

that's a good point. maybe the drives still get some residual power from the motherboard even when the computer is "off", and that's enough to finish the writes?