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A buggy Windows 11 update keeps slowing down SSDs

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70 pointsValentineC16 comments

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.

Yes the entirety of the sources for the article appears to be random reddit users.

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.

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.

You made that up but that does sound like a real story that could actually happen.

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

I’m using win 11 preview (testing wslg, it’s sweet) and it'll randomly peg out the SSD writing to some logs for as long as I’ll let it.

Win 11 as a whole seems janky and unnecessary. The new right click menu is a perfect microcosm.

Feels like a lot of internet "articles" these days.

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.

I've experienced some slowdowns recently, too. Samsung 970 Evo nvme ssd + i7-12700k.

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.

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.

Happily Microsoft has lots of QA working for free nowadays, so this should be fixed rather soonish.

And we’ll be informed of their findings by the technical writing team in detailed release notes.

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.

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.

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