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 ...

Recently, widespread reports surfaced online alleging catastrophic SSD failures following the August 2025 Windows 11 KB5063878 security update. However, Microsoft has now publicly addressed these ...

A couple of days back, reports of a recent Windows 11 update causing issues for some SSDs using Phison controllers were circulating on the internet. Many users on Reddit and other platforms had ...

Both Microsoft and Phison couldn’t recreate issues reported on social media. Both Microsoft and Phison couldn’t recreate issues reported on social media. is the Verge’s weekend editor. He has over 18 ...

Microsoft has found no link between the August 2025 KB5063878 security update and customer reports of failure and data corruption issues affecting solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives (HDDs) ...

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 ...

Last week there were reports of SSD failures due to the latest Windows update. SSDs with Silicon Motion controllers are not said to be affected. Writing large amounts of data is said to have led to ...

After installing Windows 11 update KB5063878, some people say their SSDs are disappearing from the OS or causing crashes. It took a few days, but Microsoft has confirmed that it's investigating ...

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 ...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 security update is triggering SSD failures during heavy data transfers, according to some reports. The issue came to attention late last week when an X (formerly Twitter) ...

New Windows 11 24H2 updates released this month have caused problems for some SSD and HDD drives. This has been linked to the KB5063878 security update and the KB5062660 preview update, both of which ...

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 ...