Question / Help Crash & recording loss: worse on SSD?

[Decoherent]

I just upgraded my machine to a SSD (finally), and when I got my first bluescreen yesterday (not related to OBS), I lost the entire recording file, leaving just a 1 KB file. Usually I still get a good chunk of the recording after a crash, up to the last 5-10 minutes or so. This is recording in MKV format. Is there a significant difference in how these files are stored on a SSD file system vs HDD, or have I just been lucky? I've still got the HDD in the machine for bulk storage, it would be reasonably fine to record to it and move it to the SSD for editing, but if this is just random chance, it's not worth the effort!

 

[sam686]

Did your SSD storage ran out of free space?
I think OBS-Studio can't detect out of storage space and continues encoding to... nowhere.

One difference is SSD have less storage space then HDD and can easily run out of storage space.

You might want to record to a network drive, that way any crashes will not corrupt file system on a network drive.
Or you can try to turn off buffering to a recording drive, as buffer may delay writes.
edit: search shows how to turn off buffering. https://www.google.com/search?q=turn+off+disk+buffering+windows+10

 

[Decoherent]

Yeah, it wasn't space, but I was wondering about data being cached. I suppose a SSD would rely more on caching, to reduce write amplification or whatnot. The network drive idea is a good one, I've got a ton of drive space on a decent NAS; not that I get a lot of crashes (maybe one a month, probably less), but still!