Quasicat
Gold Member
Absolutely! I live in rural America and the power here flickers and/or goes out whenever we have a storm blow through. I had to replace a PS4 hard drive one time when it tried to rebuild the database and refused to startup normally after a power outage while it was in sleep mode.After my PS4 Pro was clobbered while in sleep mode after a power outage (despite being in a surge protector) years back, i never leave my PS5 in sleep mode. When I'm done for the day, i power it fully off. I'm not taking any chances. I never leave disks in either. Maybe I'm overly cautious, but to me I'd rather be safe.