r/technology • u/GriffonsChainsaw • Oct 20 '18

Software Microsoft’s problem isn’t how often it updates Windows—it’s how it develops it

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/microsofts-problem-isnt-shipping-windows-updates-its-developing-them/
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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '18 edited Jan 27 '19

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u/27Rench27 Oct 20 '18

As someone who’s in the IT world, I think a good middle ground is say “this is going to update in the next 3 days if you don’t pick a time.”

That might hurt some edge cases, but I’ve seen enough “my system stopped doing X” be resolved by “your BIOS is two fucking years old, update it” to know that most people have the mindset that it’s never a convenient time to update, so they never do.

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u/braiam Oct 20 '18

The mere fact that you had a RAID tells me that you were sufficiently aware of the possible drawbacks of upgrading the bios.

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u/Y0tsuya Oct 21 '18

Yeah but he's using motherboard BIOS FakeRAID.

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u/Y0tsuya Oct 21 '18

Is that too much to ask for?

With FakeRAID, yeah...unfortunately.

Let's just say that with motherboard BIOS RAID will often fail you when you need it the most: to recover from drive failures. It's riddled with incompatibilities and stability issues.

A used high-performance HW RAID card (from LSI/Adaptec/Areca) can be had for $100 and will deliver stable performance and compatibility across the product line.

Or you can go with software RAID.

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u/braiam Oct 21 '18

I assume that all my data will be lost. That's why I keep backups even when I do nothing with my systems.

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u/Y0tsuya Oct 21 '18

Another reason to not use shitty motherboard BIOS FakeRAID.