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[–] Eideen@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So they test 2200 drives for 2 hours?

[–] static09@piefed.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How long is it supposed to take when testing if a Windows 11 update bricks an SSD?

[–] Eideen@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Good question, I don’t know. If it is old shitty SSD you can exhaust lifetime write in days.

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 3 months ago

Another instance of "internal investigation found nothing?"

[–] verdantbanana@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

avoid samsung wd buy hynix fresh windows install problem solved

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 24 points 3 months ago (3 children)
[–] ellie@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

might be just me, but i've also had problems with wd and sandisk on linux, unfortunately 😨

[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

The only drives I have ever had fail were WD and sandisk (sandisk especially, good GOD never buy flash from sandisk)

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 2 points 3 months ago

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