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Unpowered solid state drives could kill your data

Séamus Bellamy
Nov 28, 2025
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I love solid-state drives (SSDs). For a guy who travels a lot, having one in my laptop instead of a spinning hard drive is such a relief. Outside of fireworks and unattended bags, nothing stresses me out faster than lifting a laptop that’s slightly off level and hearing its HDD platter scream as it grinds against its enclosure. External SSDs? Love those…

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