New report blames Phison's pre-release firmware for SSD failures — not Microsoft’s August patch for Windows

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• CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Did the ssd firmware cause failures on other OSes? Did it only have failures when formatted as NTFS? A specific partition table?

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  • DacoTaco@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The benelux media tweakers.net has tested the failing ssd on linux, and yes it did fail there too. They were saying temperature might have been a factor since in windows the temperatures were higher than linux, but something was off ye.
    If this is a case of prerelease firmware being shipped and killing it, thats baaaddd

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• Psaldorn@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The takeaway: Microsoft forced pre-release firmware onto millions of computers.

  They’re lucky only a small percentage were damaged tbf.

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  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The takeaway: Microsoft forced pre-release firmware onto millions of computers.

    How you read that article and came to that conclusion is beyond me. No, that’s not the takeaway lol. Microsoft didn’t force the pre-release firmware onto people SSD’s.

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  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We don’t actually know that’s the case though.

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    • Psaldorn@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What’s the other path for this firmware being related to the update?

      Maybe I’m missing something

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• confusedwiseman@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There’s a lot of correlation and speculation going on along with deflecting potential liability.

  It would seem if you have one of these drives, make sure the firmware is current, and you should be fine. (Prerelease firmware and heavy load seem to be the “triggers”)

  If you don’t plan for hard drive failure, you’ll learn that lesson eventually…

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• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  According to the Chinese Facebook group PCDIY! . . .

  In a Facebook post, group admin Rose Lee said that the issue has been identified and additionally verified by Phison engineers, thereby giving credibility to the claims.

  Ah yes the notably stringent testing and analysis of . . . a Chinese Facebook group

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  • FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    and additionally verified by Phison engineers

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    • Cenotaph@mander.xyz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A random facebook admin says it was verified by Phison engineers, it doesn’t sound like the reporter actually spoke to anyone from Phison

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• FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well this will not get many comments lol

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  • FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That's always the way. Publish the big splashy allegations of terrible things on the front page, publish the retraction weeks later down in a footnote somewhere deep inside. It's obvious which gets more views.

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  • systemglitch@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And you wasted space with a comment. Hell you wasted the time it takes to read your useless comment.

    And now you no longer exist in my world because I block those things that waste our time.

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    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The irony of this comment is painful.

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