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  • Which filesystem do use? What os and distribution?
    – Turdie
    Commented Dec 24, 2023 at 13:26
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    That seems likely to cause damage to the SSD, eventually!! Find out what causes that disconnection, e.g., a partially unsoldered USB connector on the PC, or a bad hub, and fix it. Though I've had powered hubs go off-and-on, I've never had a directly connected external drive do so. Commented Dec 24, 2023 at 18:47
  • If you have a spare gig or two of ram, you might consider running your system live toram (from a live ISO copied to ram). Then you can physically unplug every storage drive with no issues, if you wanted. Of course, you would have to mount a physical drive to save any changes since all root filesystem writes are only to temporary ram (tmpfs) files.
    – Xen2050
    Commented Dec 25, 2023 at 4:21