Before proceeding with advanced troubleshooting steps, try some preliminary fixes. If your computer sometimes fails to recognize your SSD, it might not be seated properly in the slot. Open your ...

Is a Recent Windows Update Responsible for SSD Failures? Microsoft Has an Answer Your email has been sent Some Windows 11 users are blaming a recent patch for causing data corruption and hardware ...

Microsoft has responded to reports that a recent Windows 11 security update has caused gaming SSDs to fail. According to the company, a "thorough investigation" left the company in no doubt that its ...

TL;DR: Recent reports linked Windows 11 security updates KB5063878 and KB5062660 to SSD failures during large data transfers, especially on DRAM-less drives with Phison controllers. However, after ...

Recap: Reports suggest that a Windows 11 security update released in early August may be the cause of HDD and SSD failures during large data transfers. However, the extent of the issue remains unclear ...

Correlation without causation was the caveat we applied last week to reports that the KB5063878 update for Windows 11 was nuking SSDs and HDDs. Now SSD controller maker Phison has reported back on an ...

When updating a piece of software as large and complex and old as Windows, you’re inevitably going to break something every once in a while. Microsoft tracks known issues here—generally they affect ...

Recently released Windows 11 24H2 updates are reportedly causing data corruption and failure issues for some SSD and HDD models on up-to-date systems. While some of the impacted drives were restored ...

Phison has confirmed that Windows 11’s latest security updates are trashing SSDs, particularly those based on its PS5012-E12 controller, after a wave of failures was reported by users, mostly in Japan ...

A new Windows 11 security update is reportedly causing some gaming SSDs to fail. That's according to new reports online, which suggest that, following the installation of the KB5063878 security update ...

Word is circulating around the Internet that the latest Windows 11 update may be causing some potentially serious problems for SSD owners. More specifically, some users in Japan have reported that ...

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