Consequences of hard reset on SSD

[Blackfoot]

Hey,

I'v been having the common issue that my MacBook Pro (2011 model) freezes while playing a game, as reported all over the place (links below). The only way out is with a hard-reset (holding down the power button until the computer shuts off). This was something I tried to avoid while having a disk-based hard drive due to potential data-corruption (among other), but what are the risks with an SSD-drive?

Thanks for your help!

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2764570&tstart=0
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2768351&tstart=0
http://forums.macnn.com/69/mac-notebooks/435033/macbook-pro-thunderbolt-new-video-driver/
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2140185519
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1774543

 

[Dalton63841]

Theoretically there shouldn't be any risk, beyond the basic "data loss if currently writing to disk" problem. SSD's do not have heads to park like platter based drives do.

 

[Blackfoot]

Theoretically there shouldn't be any risk, beyond the basic "data loss if currently writing to disk" problem. SSD's do not have heads to park like platter based drives do.

Well thanks for your quick response!

 

[ZipZap]

Hard resets are never a good thing and it cannot be concluded that only the unwritten data will be lost. Who know what state the mac is in when you hard reset.

That said you have to do what you have to do. I would stop using the game if it always leads to hard resets.

 

[Blackfoot]

That's what I did, until I found out the crash didn't occur while playing in "windowed mode". But no matter, my 2-weeks old laptop has already suffered a dozen hard reset, thus my posting here.

Besides, I don't support the idea of paying $2k5 for a laptop I can't use to its full extent. Hopefully Apple will fix this rapidly with some sort of firmware upgrade...