Personally, I think bang the dice game is overall a better experience. The end goal is the same regarding the roles, but instead your actions are restricted to what you roll, with a push your luck mechanic that allows for rerolls while keeping it a risk to do so.
Because there are no items, you don’t end up in the situation where the sheriff is sitting behind both a hideout and a mustang, flanked by his deputies, unreachable by card steeling mechanics and making it harder for other players to make an impact on his health. While arguably the lack of card combos eliminate cool moments like unloading a ton of saved up bang cards with a volcanic, it also leads to the biggest improvement to game: the games end more quickly so players don’t sit out as long. It is also, significantly easier to teach and learn, so it’s easy to get it to the table with large groups.
Well, depending on the drive and if this 40gb of loss was one file and how quickly he shut down after saving the data, it actually is possible. Some drives will use write cache to speed up the perception of the write speeds of a drive where new data is very quickly written to a faster cache, then is transferred a little more slowly to permanent storage. But this write cache isn’t always power loss protected. If you do a normal shut down, the computer waits until any data on the write cache gets transferred to permanent storage before it fully shuts down. If you just nix the power though, that data could be gone, and if it was part of a larger file, it would corrupt that file.
Edit: Here’s a source to back up my info. Though, it looks like it may actually be an os feature instead of a drive feature. https://www.iolosystem.com/resources/disk-write-caching.html