SSD's more prone to OS corruption?..

[Grim281]

Hey all, in all my years of having a pc my OS has never gotten corrupted from a brief power outage. My wife just tripped a breaker last night and it seemed to have killed my install on my intel ssd. Anyone else experience this?

 

[slaughter111]

Hadn't had it happen to me, but i'm wondering what OS is on your SSD? I've used SSD with OS X and dropped power - no issue whatsoever. I can't imagine a Windows OS being that bad :\

 

[Grim281]

im on Win7 x64. I guess it was just one of those strange things.

 

[Zargon]

you have the coin to drop on SSD's but can't spend 40 bucks on a UPS....?

I would get a UPS and not have to worry about my wife tripping breakers anymore


its possible it just happened 'at the exact wrong time' but its weird that system restore wouldnt be able to fix it

 

[Grim281]

I know, I know. I never got around to buying one. I am looking for a decent one right now.

 

[eddypoon]

I am skeptical, would you please share your repair story with Intel should you decide to send it in for repairs?

The power surge should not pass your power supply unless something very weird is happening.

 

[her209]

Also, corruption would happen in the middle of a write, no?

 

[Grim281]

The drive is physically ok, but my windows installation got borked. I did a reformat and reinstall last night and everything seems to be working fine now. The issue I was having was due to the RPC service not running and not being able to restart it after the power outage. I just bought a UPS so hopefully this will not happen again.

 

[zagood]

Did you have Write Cache Buffer Flushing disabled? That's one thing I've seen that can really bork an OS during a power outage.

 

[Zargon]

I just bought a UPS so hopefully this will not happen again.

:thumbsup:

sorry about you getting stuck doing a reinstall, that bites

 

[Makaveli]

you have the coin to drop on SSD's but can't spend 40 bucks on a UPS....?

I would get a UPS and not have to worry about my wife tripping breakers anymore


its possible it just happened 'at the exact wrong time' but its weird that system restore wouldnt be able to fix it

great idea on the UPS it should be a mandatory purchase for all computers.

However a 40 dollar one no thanks.

Just my opinon but when buying a UPS it should not be cheaper than your PSU.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I find with any OS pulling the plug is hit and miss. You can get away with it many times, then suddenly it craps out. I've pulled the plug on a frozen Linux server and totally corrupted the install once, yet another time I pulled the plug on another linux server while it was in the middle of rebuilding a broken MD raid, and it never crapped out. Guess it depends what is happening at the very moment the power goes out.

 

[Zargon]

great idea on the UPS it should be a mandatory purchase for all computers.

However a 40 dollar one no thanks.

Just my opinon but when buying a UPS it should not be cheaper than your PSU.

you can get some decent ones from APC and Cyberpower for 40-50 bucks on sale. I snagged a APC Back UPS ES 550 for 44.95 at staples a few weeks ago. thats plenty of juice to keep it up for a few minutes then shutdown. More than enough for it to condition the power on a rig. Have a few 450 cyberpowers that were 30 on sale at Best buy on 2 of my other machines.

I have tons of the ES 350 and ES 550's deployed (over 100) and none of them have caused system issues. Sure they die on occasion but generally under warrenty, or after 4 years of weekly generator tests shit will get fried

 

[Grim281]

I bought this one

CyberPower Intelligent LCD CP1500AVRLCD 1500VA UPS

http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=203277717

 

[swingline09]

Just to check, do you mean that when Write Cache Buffer Flushing is enabled, issues can come up during a power outage?

Thanks.

Did you have Write Cache Buffer Flushing disabled? That's one thing I've seen that can really bork an OS during a power outage.

 

[zagood]

When caching is enabled, power outages can cause errors.

When buffer flushing is disabled, power outages can cause errors.

Good tutorial here:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/10392-write-caching-enable-disable.html

 

[Emulex]

good ups - smartups do self-diagnostic tests weekly to let you know when they are going to fail - they also let you use software like apcupsd (any o/s) to shutdown to you liking and chain shutdown other machines connected via network/serial/ups.

I have a physical vcenter box tied to a smart ups - it slaves via network to a bunch of vm's. It also slaves to a VMA4 vm that tells the hosts to shutdown after it shuts down the guests - which should have shutdown by network apcupsd chaining already but just in case that didn't work out the host will then shutdown the guest then shutdown the hosts until the last vm host running the vma1 will proceed to shutdown.

slick little app - no cost - works with every apc known to man. stick to the smart-ups line (or better). trust me on that one.

 

[taltamir]

was your windows installing updates when the power outage occurred?