On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 05:27:31PM +0100, Simon Wilcox wrote: > On 20/4/10 16:52, David Cantrell wrote: > >Very few people live in areas with flaky power, at least in the UK. > I had a 5 minute power cut in SE26 two weeks ago and a cut lasting about > an hour in EC1 10 days ago.
Huh. Here in CR7, I think I've had two powercuts, total, in the 13 years I've lived here. The only power-related problem I've had other than that was when my old fridge died, and took the PSU for my G4 Cube with it. Didn't lose any data though. > >Not, of course, that this is a SSD-specific problem. > Data backups have the same problem, test 'em regularly or they may not > work when you need 'em most :-) If you haven't tested them, you don't have backups, you have hopes. -- David Cantrell | even more awesome than a panda-fur coat Feature: an incorrectly implemented bug