I turned my PC off during the "don't switch off" symbol in five different games to see what would happen and boy was this an annoying experiment - eviltoast
What happens when you turn off a game during the "Do not turn off" warning? This displays when a game is being saved and warns of data corruption. Let's see.

The games and their results

Hades 2 - Result: No data loss.

Still Wakes The Deep - Result: Absolutely fuckaw.

Dread Delusion - Result: Getting very bored of entering my Windows password.

Cyberpunk 2077 - Result: Regret starting this pointless experiment.

Alien: Isolation - Result: Just glad this is over, to be honest.

  • Ledivin@lemmy.world
    41·
    4 months ago

    You’ll have some garbage data, sure, but it won’t fuck up your drive - that’s the difference. A hard disk can fail in so many different ways in comparison, and that’s what the warning is actually for - “unrecoverable” problems with the drive. With a SSD, the worst that happens is you lose your last write. It’s not going to have allocation issues, and isn’t at risk of any physical damage.

    • dactylotheca@suppo.fiEnglish
      11·
      4 months ago

      Oh yes absolutely, spinny disks can be more temperamental if they lose power, although it’s not super duper common especially nowadays; I’ve been lucky, I think I’ve never had any of mine get borked like that over the past >30y.

      But yeah in comparison incomplete writes on SSD are pretty mild as far as potential problems go, at least on sane file systems