Comment by colin_mccabe

My impression was that even cheap SSDs should have ultracapacitors or small batteries that allow them to survive a power loss event without being bricked. Of course, the stuff in the cache is lost at that point, but that's no worse than the situation with a hard drive. Also, as I mentioned, "much more data than the one currently written" can be lost when power fails in a hard drive. So the situation is really no different, unless the manufacturer screwed up.