themachinestopsMicrosoft asks customers for feedback on reported SSD failures
Wait. The point of the unbelievable amount of telemetry you can’t even disable was to collect info in situations like this. Right? Why is there telemetry if they have to ask?
Edit: title of the article is a bit misleading, as I obviously commented before reading the article.
The “another” company they are in contacting is Phison, the manufacturer of thr affected controllers, so it doesn’t sound as bad as from the title
This will help them keep the (reported) number of incidents down. Only a fraction of people will report it.
They have received no official reports, and cannot reproduce the issue. I’m betting this is a case of a couple drives failing and then everyone screaming at MS without any verification.
FaceDeerReminds me of the 2009 Toyota accelerator pedal incident.
Considering the history of MS and how frequent issues like this happen, it is no wonder everyone is screaming at MS. I honestly wonder how well they test their software considering the frequency of critical issues every update.
So they should be fucking paying us to be testing for them.
RhaedasThey literally went "why having testing, when production gives us more data?"
Even if the headline weren’t misleading, I wouldn’t be shocked if they have a hard time getting telemetry reports from failed drives from users if the OS is installed on said drive.
Then again, a modern OS should be able to phone home with a crash report as it crashes depending on what has failed, so I guess I’ve talked myself out of that hypothetical lack of shock.
So…disregard this. 😅
This issue was great. It gave me an excuse to upgrade to a better SSD, which also gave me an excuse to try Linux for the first time in like a decade (other than the Steam Deck). Threw Nobara on the drive that Windows would murder. Haven’t had time to play around with it much, but I’m excited to try it.
Come on in, the water is fine.
I ordered an SSD and put Bazzite on it. The only problem is that some game anti cheat doesn’t work. Everything else just works including out of the box Nvidia card support
I suspect they know why, because we know why. In our environment, almost 100% of people with boot issues after the in-place upgrade were people who thought the update was stuck or taking too long, freaked out, and powered their computer off at a bad time during the update.