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Has any PS4 owner ever had their PS4s data lost, damaged,or corrupted from improperly turning it off?

The power went out when my PS4 in rest mode and I got the warning but in all times it has been turned off improperly nothing has ever happened
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Terrance · 41-45, M
If you don't shut hard drives down properly there is a risk of corruption. Inside every hard drive are a number of mechanical parts. The disks can crash into each other.... It's whether you were prepared to replace the hard drive when this happens. My friend's son had this happen on his PS3. I replaced it with an SSD
@Terrance how in the world would the platters crash into each other? I can see the arm not getting properly parked, but the platters will not crash into each other. If power is lost in the middle of an install you will still have data corruption on a ssd drive.
Terrance · 41-45, M
@AcidBurn That's what I was taught at college...

I never said an SSD was resistant. I just said that's what I installed