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    Windows 11 Aug 2025 KB5063878: SSDs Vanish Under Heavy Writes

    A wave of community test results and vendor confirmations this week has put the latest Windows 11 cumulative update under a harsh spotlight: several SSDs can disappear from Windows during sustained, large write operations after installing the August 12, 2025 update (KB5063878), with a...
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    Windows 11 KB5063878 Patch Triggers SSD/HDD Failures Under Heavy Write

    Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday delivered a surprise that quickly escalated from a support thread to a cross-industry incident: the Windows 11 cumulative update KB5063878 has been linked by multiple users to SSD and HDD failures, data corruption, and drives “vanishing” during heavy write...
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    Windows 11 KB5063878: SSDs Vanish Under Heavy Writes, Data Risk

    Microsoft and SSD vendors have opened an investigation after multiple independent testers and users reported that the August 12, 2025 Windows 11 cumulative update (KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) can cause some NVMe and SATA drives to stop responding, vanish from the operating system, and — in a...
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    Windows 11 August Update Triggers NVMe Controller Failures; Phison Investigates

    Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 has left a trail of disrupted installs and disappearing NVMe drives, and Phison — maker of widely used SSD controllers including the PS5012‑E12 — has confirmed it is investigating reports that the updates KB5063878 and KB5062660 can trigger...
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    KB5063878: Windows 11 SSD Failures Under Heavy Write Workloads

    Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 (KB5063878) shipped as a routine Secure Boot and quality update, but a scatter of user reports — concentrated in Japan and amplified across enthusiasts’ channels — now link the patch to serious SSD failures under heavy write workloads; the pattern...
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