once i was copying files from a windows install on ntfs fs to an external ntfs drive on an old laptop. somehow the system got so hot, it permanently damaged the GPU, and left marks on the display
This is one of those things that sounds impossible but then I’ve also seen when someone I know used social engineering to get a malicious build of a free video game on to the laptop of someone else I know to delete all his files remotely and for some reason it actually overheated uncontrollably and melted. I didn’t believe that either until I went with him to get security footage from the university for the warranty claim.
That was early windows xp era though. I’d really like to believe a damned filesystem driver cand cause that kind of damage, please for the love of dog…
That was early windows xp era though
I know AMD had some issues a long time ago with thermal protection. Tom’s Hardware made a video on YouTube where they tested what happens when removing the CPU cooler on a system running Quake 3. As I remember it, all the Intel CPUs survived but most, if not all, the AMD CPUs died, one also damaging the motherboard.
Damn, I remember that video, blast from the past… Also 29C? Shit, my gpu runs at 80 a lot of the time.
My experience of using NTFS on Linux was downloading a torrent on a dual boot laptop and it shutting down due to overheating. This was more than a decade ago, so hopefully it’s a lot better by now.
I’ve been transferring files from old NTFS drives formatted for Windows on a Debian machine without issue.
Reading from NTFS is nearly flawless. Writing and actively using it is pretty bad occasionally though, to the point where steam doesn’t support it and recommends against it for game libraries on Linux.
