Can confirm this from personal experience - especially while using OEM SSDs (even newer/recent models) - for which Samsung refuses to offer support. To be fair, Samsung is quite famous for manufacturing capable hardware and mediocre at best (even infamous - to some extent) - when it comes to Windows Software (Android can be a different story - since it's also a different dev team). I've ever encountered a bug-free computer system, whether it be in hardware or software. So that's another location for bad code to cause problems. These migrated from separate ASICs to things like the controller chip (e.g., AMD B550). Remember than there may be a host controller as well. And yes, there is always the chance of buggy code that results in incorrect data being passed over.
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The rotational attribute might be one of the key factors.įor sure drive controllers have evolved over the years and old ones won't be reporting all of the same data that newer ones will. This is probably something being reported by the drive controller. One attribute I've noticed on my Mac over the years is whether a storage device is "rotational". The disk management tools will end up being the most accurate since those are actively altering or controlling storage devices.
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Click to expand.My guess is that over years, various Windows utilities have been sourcing disk information from different queries and it has gotten messy.