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[–] rdri@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's not a good practice to allow immediate shutdown on a PC, as long as the OS doesn't do checks for finished data transfers. You will lose data if SSD is not finished writing it. Yes, even with super fast SSD there might be stuff that takes seconds to complete.