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Running OS on external hard drive - shutdown and drive safety
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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1597055" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>Modern drives have safety features that park the head when power is lost, so there's no worry. The only scenario where this could possibly still be a problem is if data is being written to the drive as power is lost. Even that's still a pretty remote chance. None of this should be an issue here since you are booted off that drive and doing a proper shutdown.</p><p></p><p>If you are still really worried about this, just stop using an external drive to boot the computer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1597055, member: 38864"] Modern drives have safety features that park the head when power is lost, so there's no worry. The only scenario where this could possibly still be a problem is if data is being written to the drive as power is lost. Even that's still a pretty remote chance. None of this should be an issue here since you are booted off that drive and doing a proper shutdown. If you are still really worried about this, just stop using an external drive to boot the computer. [/QUOTE]
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