Bitlockered devices following updates

[timeshifter]

Maybe one way to look at this is that there's always going to be an x% risk of losing your data no matter what, it's a constant. 10 years ago before every new PC came with an SSD maybe we had x% drive failures. Now that SSD is essentially the standard and they fail at a lower rate, the difference is made up with crap like this. So users always have x% chance of losing data.

 

[Sky-Knight]

Maybe one way to look at this is that there's always going to be an x% risk of losing your data no matter what, it's a constant. 10 years ago before every new PC came with an SSD maybe we had x% drive failures. Now that SSD is essentially the standard and they fail at a lower rate, the difference is made up with crap like this. So users always have x% chance of losing data.

There will always be some percentage of failure due to software fault.
There will always be some percentage of failure due to hardware fault.

In my experience when it comes to storage, this is somewhere between 1 and 4% of devices per year. It's definitely been on the decline however. Even with the relative upswing of hardware faults on NVMe drives, we are nowhere near platter level faults.

Some around here have forgotten what FDE on a platter drive failed like... and it shows.

Failures are not acceptable, yet they will always happen, plan accordingly or plan to fail.