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Your gaming SSD could fail if you install this Windows 11 update, say reports (www.pcgamesn.com)

submitted 2 days ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

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[–] MudMan@fedia.io 60 points 2 days ago (6 children)

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 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's an ordinary SSD but they added a zero to the price.

[–] ganryuu@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

And RGB LEDs, gotta remember those!

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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 day ago

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

[–] donuts@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

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

[–] maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Journalism at its finest...

[–] MarauderIIC@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Link to proper report would be cool

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 1 points 2 days 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.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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 2 days 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.