For an art exhibition I have a mini PC with Windows 10 with SSD harddisk playing permanently a looped video.
When the museum closes in the evening all power in the building is cut off. In most cases it will be not possible for the personnel to shut down the mini PC correctly before the power is cut off.
I tested such power cuts several times and there was never a problem. But when this happens on a daily basis for many months can the Windows system be corrupted or can other problems occur?
PS 1: I was thinking to use an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) System to shut down the PC correctly. Unfortunately the installation space is too limited to put an UPS. So I cannot use this option.
PS 2: When the power comes back on the PC will boot automatically and start the media player to play the video. So this is working fine.
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when a dirty shutdown occurs (this is also why after a dirty shutdown the OS should be rebooted normally to clear the flag); every time Windows boots, it reads this file prior to presenting the GUI for user interaction. Repeatedly/always performing a dirty shutdown will lead to filesystem corruption.