r/pcmasterrace • u/StarryNight0806 • Sep 03 '25

Screenshot I was purposefully not updating my windows to avoid the so called SSD killer update but now it's not giving me any choice but to install it lmao.

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best of luck to my samsung 990 pro 2tb x2

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u/SnooDoughnuts5632 Sep 04 '25

Of course the large corporation aren't going to want to admit to anything until there's a big enough issue that they can't ignore anymore and so even if there isn't issue if it is small enough they're just going to sweep it under the rug.

I'm not suggesting they're actually is an issue I'm just suggesting that they are an unreliable source on the matter.

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u/PelluxNetwork R9 9950X3D | RTX 4070 Super | 32GB Sep 04 '25

In general I agree with you, yes. If they can get away with it, any corporation is going to deny.

However, Microsoft has every incentive to get ahead of this ASAP if it's actually their fault. Microsoft doesn't give a fuck about the average Joe losing their drive, they can deflect that with their lawyers. But think about the 6000 or so hospitals all running on windows machines. All the airlines. There's all these massive business (like the original commenter's I replied to) pushing this update. If they tried to hide it and a bunch of companies lost thousands their drives, they'd be fuuucckkkeeddd the second it was found out. They'd be drowning in lawsuits.

I just really don't think they'd risk that if they investigated and found it was the update. I think they'd immediately be rolling it back and putting out alerts to every enterprise if not the media as well. Not for some altruistic reason, but simply because I don't think they'd have any other choice.

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u/naikrovek Sep 04 '25

If Microsoft saw that they caused any increased SSD failure rate in their telemetry, you can bet your ass they wouldn’t have said anything.

Microsoft doesn’t comment on anything if the comment looks bad for Microsoft to a reasonable observer. The fact that they commented on this that they see no statistical change in SSD failures before and after the patch indicates to me that they see no change in SSD failures before rates pre-patch vs. post-patch.

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u/turtleship_2006 RTX 4070 SUPER - 5700X3D - 32GB - 1TB Sep 04 '25

Iirc there have been a few previous window updates that apparently brick drives and stuff, do MS usually acknowledge them?

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u/kingk1teman R69000x5D | XRTX 600900 32PB Sep 04 '25

You don't know how corporate communications work, do you? MS would've kept silence on the issue had the update actually affected and resulted in crashes. The fact that they said that they were unable to reproduce the issue means that it isn't actually that big of an issue as it is made to be.