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Common causes of data loss around Denver

The Front Range sits in one of the most hail-prone parts of the country, and spring and summer storms routinely bring hail, lightning, and sudden outages across the metro. Severe hail can break windows and skylights and let water into homes and cars, where laptops and drives sit. Lightning, and the surges that come with outage restorations, are a common way for a drive's electronics or an SSD controller to fail outright. Use a UPS for desktops and NAS units, unplug equipment during the worst storms, and don't leave a laptop on a car seat under a window during hail season.

Strong downslope winds along the Front Range topple trees and power lines, and in recent years Xcel Energy has used planned public-safety power shutoffs during extreme wind and fire-danger days, cutting power to tens of thousands of customers along the foothills. Denver's very dry air also makes static discharge common, especially in winter. Abrupt power loss can corrupt a file system or leave a drive in a bad state, and a static zap to an exposed board can kill it. Save work often on high-wind days, keep a UPS charged, and touch grounded metal before handling bare drives.

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