The AI is fixing my slow SSD by repartitioning it

His SSD had become very slow at writing. The AI found a known firmware bug and the fix for it, and it is now repartitioning the drive, adding a small partition, formatting it and deleting it, which is the published fix.

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How it works

SSD writes become very slow
The AI finds a known firmware bug and a fix
The AI repartitions the SSD, adding and formatting a small partition, then deleting it

Why it’s worth knowing

The fix for his slow drive was not a setting. The AI is repartitioning the drive itself.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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