floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoReport: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your datawww.neowin.netexternal-linkmessage-square168fedilinkarrow-up1663arrow-down112cross-posted to: hackernews
arrow-up1651arrow-down1external-linkReport: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your datawww.neowin.netfloofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square168fedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews
minus-squaretekato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up61arrow-down9·1 month agoThe reporter’s own “test” proves this is caused by faulty drives unable to sustain the speed they advertise, not Windows.
minus-squaremuusemuuse@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·1 month agoAre you suggesting the drives are accessed more slowly before this update?
minus-squareILikeBoobies@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month 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-up14·1 month 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.
minus-squaretatterdemalion@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·edit-230 days agoWhy would IO speed be a factor in whether a user’s data is corrupted? That just sounds like a race condition.
The reporter’s own “test” proves this is caused by faulty drives unable to sustain the speed they advertise, not Windows.
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.
Why would IO speed be a factor in whether a user’s data is corrupted? That just sounds like a race condition.