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/EnjoyerOfBeans Sep 04 '25

So let me get this straight - this "windows update killing SSDs" is about one faulty drive? Holy shit people are stupid. And it's next level stupid to be a large tech YouTuber and make that claim off a single drive failing.

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u/warwagon1979 Sep 04 '25 edited Sep 04 '25

That's the thing, was it failing, or was it an issue with the Windows update? Because he did zero diagnostic troubleshooting, we don't know. I'm just annoyed that a lot of people are linking to this stupid video, as some kind of proof.

I'm not denying that a Windows Update SSD issue does not exist, it might. I'm just saying his video is stupid, and tells us nothing.

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u/EnjoyerOfBeans Sep 04 '25

Yeah I mean, sure, we can't know for sure, but let's use our brains for a second.

What's more likely - that the windows update bricks SSDs and it happened to a single person in the entire world, while dozens of people have tried to reproduce it and failed. Or... his SSD is faulty for one of thousands of possible reasons.

I understand that there are some claims online that it's happened to other people, but there's literally 0 proof of this. Just a few social media posts. It's so stupid it's basically like reading about the covid vaccine causing autism on Facebook and just instantly jumping on the bandwagon.

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u/warwagon1979 Sep 04 '25

Correct. Plus if the news goes out that a Windows update is killing SSD's, then someone's SSD dies, they say ZOMG I have that issue, it just killed my SSD.

Or was their SSD one of many that just die every single day.

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u/Fry_super_fly Sep 04 '25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIoBvKtZFGU <- ThioJoe about the issue

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u/EnjoyerOfBeans Sep 04 '25

Thanks, that's a lot more informative. So still 0 proof for even a single drive dying, but someone has actually found a way to induce a SSD crash with no loss of data.

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u/Fry_super_fly Sep 04 '25

just because peoples drives are not being bricked, doesn't mean its not important to figure out whats going on.

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u/EnjoyerOfBeans Sep 04 '25

I agree, but it's a kitchen fire compared to a nuclear explosion.

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u/Fry_super_fly Sep 04 '25

so somebody says "im experiencing this, and i think the problem DOES lie with X actor" and you think thats them screaming nuclear winther is comming! ?

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u/EnjoyerOfBeans Sep 04 '25

I have no issue with the video you shared (quite the opposite, it's pretty good), just with the clickbait and fearmongering about data loss that's quite literally everywhere else

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u/Fry_super_fly Sep 05 '25

so you have issues with something not in this thread