[SOLVED] Is 20H2 safe?

[V4ltamah]

Is the Win10 Update 20H2 update safe? I need to reinstall Windows and my friend warned me that the update could corrupt (or degrade) NVMe ssds.

 

[USAFRet]

Is the Win10 Update 20H2 update safe? I need to reinstall Windows and my friend warned me that the update could corrupt (or degrade) NVMe ssds.

Yes, it is "safe".

Your friend is misguided. Ask him for specifics, and resources where he found this information.

 

[V4ltamah]

Yes, it is "safe".

Your friend is misguided. Ask him for specifics, and resources where he found this information.

thank you, and there were many articles like "Windows 10 20H2 Update Reportedly Damages SSD File Systems If You Run ChkDsk"
i know it is chkdsk, but....

 

[Deleted member 2838871]

Is the Win10 Update 20H2 update safe? I need to reinstall Windows and my friend warned me that the update could corrupt (or degrade) NVMe ssds.

Yes, it is "safe".

Your friend is misguided. Ask him for specifics, and resources where he found this information.

Indeed his friend is misguided. The first thing I did with the new build was update to 20H2 and there's nothing wrong with my 970 Evo Plus SSDs.

 

[USAFRet]

thank you, and there were many articles like "Windows 10 20H2 Update Reportedly Damages SSD File Systems If You Run ChkDsk"
i know it is chkdsk, but....

Why would you randomly be running chldsk?

 

[USAFRet]

thank you, and there were many articles like "Windows 10 20H2 Update Reportedly Damages SSD File Systems If You Run ChkDsk"
i know it is chkdsk, but....

You have to be careful about these things.

Every single OS update, there are gloom and doom articles. It will absolutely destroy your data, melt your hardware, send your personal data and pics directly to Bill Gates' private server farm...
This happens across all OS's, all updates. Windows, Apple, Linux, Android....every single time.

These articles do one thing - Generate clicks for the author and publisher.

 

[Colif]

The number of articles about how scary windows version updates are goes up every time too, more click bait. Most articles by non tech sites too. The next ones probably already written, just cut/paste release dates in. Facts need not apply.

10th version update of win 10 i have had so far and only the 1st install of win 10 caused any problems and really, that was after upgrading from win 7.

If you believe the articles we all had our data lost multiple times in the last 5 years. It is really not that bad.

You only hear about the installs that fail, those that work don't often come onto forums to say its going fine (except to occasionally answer questions like this one with "It works fine for me, must be your PC" which really isn't helpful