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We have clients that apparently routinely kill the power to our running windows 7 platform without performing a shutdown.
We have had a couple of (SSD) drive failures that we suspect are caused by this behaviour.

Assuming education is impossible, does an internal solution exist that detects the powerdown, and supplies enough energy via some supercaps to last while the device performs a hardware shutdown on the PC?
We are severely space-constrained, so the device must be within the hardware system.

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    The solution would be to fire the personnel who are intentionally damaging company property. – Hyppy Apr 28 '15 at 14:16
  • @Hyppy: These are customers using their own hardware that we have sold. We are supporting them, and wish to prevent having to deal with this issue if possible. They can't fire everyone who misunderstands the shutdown procedure - this is but one step in a long, complicated, dangerous routine for them, and this is *not* a critical step in their minds (it's just a PC!) – DefenestrationDay Apr 28 '15 at 14:21
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    I wouldn't look for a technological solution to a people problem in this case. – ewwhite Apr 28 '15 at 14:34
  • I agree it is a system failure - but why not eliminate this particular problem if it happens? Backup systems are never a good idea? Why have auto-correct? Just force users to learn their language better! – DefenestrationDay Apr 28 '15 at 14:42
  • btw. do they pull the plug, or just use the button? – Fox Apr 28 '15 at 14:43
  • @Fox: pop the circuit-breaker. A hard-kill! – DefenestrationDay Apr 28 '15 at 14:46
  • Ok, i was going to suggest cutting the powerbutton wiring. But yeah, bypassing the circuit breaker won't do :D – Fox Apr 28 '15 at 20:24

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There are SuperMicro servers, which have battery inside.

And there are SSDs with supercap, like Intel's PLI technology.

Edit: After quick googling I found this internal UPS. It looks dated, but may very well still be in production.

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