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Originally Posted by Dabug
You're probably right about this `not hurting the drive.' Most modern hard drives will automatically park their read/write heads if they suddenly lose power. Still, I wouldn't recommend abruptly cutting off power to the computer.
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It's the question to the file system first of all. While hard drive doesn't get any physical damage, some data still has a chance to be 'logically' damaged. NTFS isn't really the best file system ever. I like XFS for linux, after I carried out the following experiment: a computer with a script, constantly copying big files from one folder to another, was placed in the corridor, with a sign "please, take power cord out of socket and then plug it back again." After a weak of such "functioning" nothing was lost!.
