alt Hacker NewsIf the drives continue to have power, but the OS has crashed, will the drives persist the data once a certain amount of time has passed? Are datacenters set up to take advantage of this?
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unsnap_biceps • yesterday at 6:39 PM
Yes, the drives are unaware of the OS state.
> will the drives persist the data once a certain amount of time has passed
Yes, otherwise those drives wouldn't work at all and would have a 100% warranty return rate. The reason they get away with it is that the misbehavior is only a problem in a specific edge-case (forgetting data written shortly before a power loss).