Microsoft has acknowledged an active investigation after multiple community researchers, test benches and SSD vendors reported that the Windows 11 August cumulative (commonly tracked as KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) can cause certain SSDs to vanish from the operating system during sustained...
Microsoft and SSD vendors are scrambling after multiple independent testers and users reported that a recent Windows 11 cumulative update can make NVMe SSDs vanish from the operating system during sustained large writes — a failure mode that in some cases has left files corrupted or drives...
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Phison has confirmed it is investigating a widespread storage regression tied to Windows 11’s August cumulative update (KB5063878) while simultaneously denouncing and legally challenging a circulated document that falsely claims to be an internal Phison report linking the problem exclusively to...
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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The August cumulative for Windows 11 24H2 (KB5063878) has been linked by multiple independent testers and specialist outlets to a reproducible storage regression that, under sustained large write workloads, can make some NVMe SSDs — and a small number of HDDs in isolated reports — disappear from...
New Windows 11 24H2 cumulative updates released in August have been linked to a worrying, reproducible storage regression that can make some SSDs and a few HDDs vanish from the operating system during heavy, sustained writes — in a number of community tests the failure has led to corrupted or...
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Phison has warned customers that a circulated document purporting to come from the company — and claiming the recent Windows 11 security updates were uniquely breaking Phison-based SSDs — is a falsified communication, and the controller vendor says it is pursuing appropriate legal action while...
Phison has publicly acknowledged the storage failures linked to Microsoft’s August 2025 Windows 11 cumulative updates (identified as KB5063878 and related KB5062660) and says it is investigating the reports with industry partners while controllers that “may have been affected” are under review...
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Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 cumulative update has been linked by multiple community tests and vendor advisories to a storage regression that, under specific conditions, can make some NVMe SSDs disappear during large sustained writes — risking data corruption or loss — and has reignited a...
Phison has confirmed it is investigating reports that Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 (24H2) — distributed as KB5063878 — is associated with a storage regression that can make certain NVMe SSDs stop responding or disappear from Windows during large, sustained write operations...
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Microsoft’s August cumulative appears to have introduced a serious storage regression: numerous Windows 11 24H2 systems report that SSDs — and in some cases HDDs — can disappear from the OS during heavy, sustained writes, leaving drives inaccessible and, in several user-tested cases, permanently...
Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 (the KB5063878 rollup, OS Build 26100.4946) has been linked by independent testers and enthusiast outlets to a storage regression that can make some SSDs temporarily — and in a minority of cases permanently — disappear during sustained large writes...
The August cumulative for Windows 11 — identified as KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946) — has been linked by multiple independent testers and tech outlets to a reproducible storage regression that can make some NVMe SSDs disappear mid-write and, in a subset of reports, leave files or partitions...
Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 (KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) has been tied by multiple independent community tests and tech outlets to a serious storage regression: under sustained, large sequential writes some SSDs can stop responding, disappear from Windows, and — in a...
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Phison has publicly acknowledged that two recent Windows 11 security updates — KB5063878 and KB5062660 — are associated with a cluster of SSD failures that make drives vanish during large, sustained write operations, and the admission has sparked urgent questions about update testing, firmware...
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...
The Windows update ecosystem once again landed in the headlines this month after community researchers and multiple publications raised alarms about KB5063878 — the August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2 — and claims that a sustained-write workload can make some NVMe SSDs...
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Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 — identified as KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946) — has been linked by independent testers and community reporting to a reproducible storage regression: under sustained, large sequential writes some NVMe SSDs can stop responding, vanish from the...
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Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 24H2 (KB5063878) has been tied to reports that, under specific heavy-write conditions, some NVMe SSDs — particularly Phison-controller models — and a small number of HDDs can become inaccessible and in some cases suffer file corruption, prompting...
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Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 24H2 (KB5063878) has been linked by independent testers and enthusiast communities to a reproducible storage regression in which certain NVMe SSDs can suddenly stop responding during sustained large writes, sometimes vanishing from Device Manager and...