• serenissi@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    os updates write large amount of data to disk at once. especially a highly bloated os like modern windows. whatever the trigger, it’s still faulty nand controller. you can very well cooy a 20G file and see disk is corrupted.

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      8 hours ago

      That’s a good point on how the OS could be “causing” it. I don’t think my take was very likely after I thought about it for a while.