[HN Gopher] A buggy Windows 11 update keeps slowing down SSDs
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       A buggy Windows 11 update keeps slowing down SSDs
        
       Author : ValentineC
       Score  : 59 points
       Date   : 2023-07-05 17:40 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.techspot.com)
        
       | doubt_me wrote:
       | Rtx 3060 + i9 + 16gb ram + 2TB 980 + 500gb 980
       | 
       | My laptop slowed down but more like "hiccups" it's extremely
       | annoying and super obvious it's because of updates.
       | 
       | Before it was smooth. Actually insanely fast. Now after the
       | updates doesn't matter what software tricks or updates I do. It's
       | just not as fast as it used to be period.
        
       | Night_Thastus wrote:
       | Details would definitely be nice. Maybe we'll get lucky and
       | Gamers Nexus will have already poked at it a bit since they're
       | active in the hardware investigation space.
        
       | JohnClark1337 wrote:
       | Ah, so others have been having this problem too. My work computer
       | has been taking about 2 minutes to fully boot up (with ssd) after
       | the march update when it used to just take a few seconds.
       | Unfortunately it's my work computer so I don't have admin access
       | and have just been living with it.
        
       | fifteen1506 wrote:
       | Happily Microsoft has lots of QA working for free nowadays, so
       | this should be fixed rather soonish.
        
         | jiggawatts wrote:
         | And we'll be informed of their findings by the technical
         | writing team in detailed release notes.
        
       | DougN7 wrote:
       | The article is pretty light on details. Does anyone have any
       | specific information about this? Me drives seem slow too, but I
       | might just be impatient.
        
         | flerchin wrote:
         | Yes the entirety of the sources for the article appears to be
         | random reddit users.
        
           | ChuckNorris89 wrote:
           | Anecdotally I'm on the latest update and haven't noticed any
           | SSD slowdown. Still cold-boots in 5 seconds and Crystal disk
           | benchmarks within the spec of the SSD.
           | 
           | Maybe it's some weird edge case on certain SSDs, certain FW,
           | and certain apps, but the the quality of the article is just
           | empty trash.
        
             | helf wrote:
             | I have multiple machines with sata and nvme ssds across
             | multiple generations of intel and AMD chips with no issues.
             | 
             | I hate random reddit news
        
             | bbarnett wrote:
             | I can imagine a reality, where it was started by an amazon
             | fraudulent seller, who then, when people complain, claims
             | it is windows... not the SSD.
             | 
             | And points them to that page.
        
               | ChuckNorris89 wrote:
               | You made that up but that does sound like a real story
               | that could actually happen.
        
           | Yhippa wrote:
           | Feels like a lot of internet "articles" these days.
        
           | NoZebra120vClip wrote:
           | I suppose that the real news story would be that they've
           | found some subreddits that haven't gone dark or been
           | sabotaged in the protest.
        
         | whalesalad wrote:
         | I've experienced some slowdowns recently, too. Samsung 970 Evo
         | nvme ssd + i7-12700k.
        
           | rincebrain wrote:
           | It wouldn't surprise me if they did something like removing a
           | banned list entry for a common SSD manufacturer thinking a
           | known issue was resolved, and surprise, they were incorrect.
           | 
           | e: A more interesting prospect, potentially, would be if they
           | had some runaway logging thing somewhere in some cases that
           | was blowing the SLC caching capabilities on a lot of SSDs,
           | leaving you with the MLC/TLC/QLC/etc performance.
        
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