Certain WD SSD users are experiencing blue screens of death (BSODs) after updating to Windows 11 24H2. Thankfully, users have managed to figure out a Registry hack that fixes it.
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The SanDisk Extreme Pro portable SSDs from WD have been found to be failing at a rather alarming rate. And even though a firmware was supposed to fix the issue, that might not actually be possible.
Following a recent widespread BitLocker issue that caused the "65000" error code which was mostly a reporting bug, it has been found that the default software BitLocker is causing real impact on SSDs.
Rufus 3.22 final version is now available for download from GitHub. It adds the option to disable BitLocker encryption. Another major highlight of the release is the end of Windows 7 support.
Last week, Microsoft released its Patch Tuesday for the month of March, and with it, the Moment 2 update was also made available to all. The latest feature update, though, maybe slowing down SSDs.
The WD SN850X drive, which recently put up great performance against other NVMe SSDs like those from Samsung, Kingston, Hynix, Crucial, is found to be buggy in Windows 11 causing BSODs and freezes.
After the two mega-fiascos Samsung recently had with its 990 Pro and 980 Pro SSDs, more bad news could be hitting the industry as several popular models seem to be suffering from performance loss.
Hot on the heels of the firmware update that fixes dying 980 Pro SSDs, Samsung promises that it will release a firmware update for the bug affecting the 990 Pro's health data soon.
A test has found that certain NVMe SSDs are losing cached data in the event of a power outage. The data loss is happening even after flushing those SSDs fully before the triggered power cut.
Samsung's 860 and 870 SATA SSDs have been causing issues for a while on Linux and it has been determined that NCQ and queued Trim commands are to blame. The problem is especially bad on older AMD PCs.
Western Digital has seemingly admitted it had handicapped its highly popular Blue SN550 budget NVMe SSD. The company has promised to be much more transparent about such matters from now on.
The newer variant of the SN550 Blue SSD from WD apparently writes at around half the speed - once its available SLC cache is full - as compared to what the original SN550 was capable of doing.
