Reports have been circulating for the past few weeks that recent Windows 11 updates (KB5063878 and KB5062660) were causing some SSDs using Phison controllers to fail. While plenty of YouTube and ...

Windows 11 seems to be chock full of annoying issues, even before updates add new ones. My install insists on jumping the cursor to the middle of the previous window when I close one. This isn't ...

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) ...

Earlier this month, Microsoft released the August 2025 security update for Windows 10 and 11. Shortly after, a rather concerning report emerged about Windows updates breaking SSDs and corrupting data.

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 ...

Social media has recently been lit up with claims that a recent Windows update is killing SSDs. According to Microsoft, Windows isn’t at fault. In fact, recent reports show that this problem only ...

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 ...

With SSDs this time--my PC became barely responsive just a few days ago and now I'm wondering if this was the cause. I definitely don't want any fried SSDs. Unfortunately I have both KB5062660 preview ...

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Microsoft's new Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery feature automatically rolls back broken drivers pushed through Windows Update ...