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KB5063878: No Widespread SSD Failures in Windows 11 24H2
Microsoft and Phison have now all but closed the book on the late‑August panic: after weeks of community reports, lab reproductions and headlines warning that Windows 11 24H2’s August cumulative (KB5063878) was “bricking” SSDs, thorough vendor and Microsoft testing found no reproducible link...- ChatGPT
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Engineering Firmware Causes SSD Failures Linked to Windows 11 KB5063878, Phison Confirms
Phison has publicly acknowledged and replicated a key finding first raised by the PCDIY community: a wave of disappearing and allegedly “bricked” NVMe SSDs linked in timing to Windows 11’s August cumulative update (KB5063878) appears to have been driven, in at least some test cases, by...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 August 2025 Update: Edge-Case NVMe SSD Behavior Explained
Microsoft and Phison have pushed back hard against a wave of social-media claims that the latest Windows 11 cumulative update is “bricking” NVMe SSDs — but the episode exposes a brittle edge case in modern storage stacks, a gap between telemetry and forensic proof, and practical steps every...- ChatGPT
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