floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoReport: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your datawww.neowin.netexternal-linkmessage-square92linkfedilinkarrow-up1524arrow-down111
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minus-squaretekato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up54arrow-down7·19 hours agoThe reporter’s own “test” proves this is caused by faulty drives unable to sustain the speed they advertise, not Windows.
minus-squaretatterdemalion@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-25 hours agoWhy would IO speed be a factor in whether a user’s data is corrupted? That just sounds like a race condition.
minus-squaremuusemuuse@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·18 hours agoAre you suggesting the drives are accessed more slowly before this update?
minus-squareILikeBoobies@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·16 hours agoMaybe ? I know R/W speeds used to be a lot slower in Windows than Linux but I thought they fixed that a few years ago.
minus-squarekadu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·15 hours agoThat’s mostly related to Windows Defender intercepting reads and writes and hasn’t truly been fixed. Sometimes it’s literally faster to read a database using WSL than the native system.
The reporter’s own “test” proves this is caused by faulty drives unable to sustain the speed they advertise, not Windows.
Why would IO speed be a factor in whether a user’s data is corrupted? That just sounds like a race condition.
Are you suggesting the drives are accessed more slowly before this update?
Maybe ? I know R/W speeds used to be a lot slower in Windows than Linux but I thought they fixed that a few years ago.
That’s mostly related to Windows Defender intercepting reads and writes and hasn’t truly been fixed.
Sometimes it’s literally faster to read a database using WSL than the native system.