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[-] MudMan@fedia.io 60 points 1 year ago

Having read a proper report on this earlier today, that headline is infuriating.

From the concept of a "gaming SSD" to the implication that the drives are being physically damaged... Maybe there's a reason why written gaming media died, you guys.

[-] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 13 points 1 year ago

I just came here to see if anyone could explain what a gaming SSD was lmao

[-] donuts@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

It's because they earn money from linking to affiliate websites so they need to make it big and scary

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

They have a link in the article to their best gaming ssds, maybe just a way to drive clicks to a blog article for ad revenue

[-] fuzzzerd@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

That maybe why they did it, but it doesn't really refute the point either.

[-] maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Journalism at its finest...

Yeah, from what it appears to say is, update can caused corrupted data.

Which sucks, but it isn't breaking anything physically

[-] MudMan@fedia.io 8 points 1 year ago

It seems like it can make some drives disappear from the system under heavy use and under some cases make SMART misbehave.

It's pretty bad, but so far direct reports are apparently only coming from Japan, so it may be a regional thing. Definitely a wait and see scenario.

[-] MarauderIIC@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

Link to proper report would be cool

[-] MudMan@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago

It would, but I saw a link here like a day ago on a site I'm not familiar with, clicked through it once on a different computer than I'm on now, read it and moved on with my day, so finding it again may be as hard for either of us, I'm sorry to say.

[-] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago

You can't accidentally install corrupted updates if you don't have Windows on your computer in the first place ๐Ÿ˜‰

[-] Penguin_1024@programming.dev 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I hate the way the phrase this whatever is used in headlines. Windows can forget your SSD exists & possible data loss can occur if you install KB5063878.

[-] unmagical@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

It's a good thing the users have control over which updates happen when!

[-] UnderFreyja@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Good thing moved to KDE last year then!

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