Microsoft and Phison say their investigations found no reproducible link between the August Windows 11 24H2 cumulative update (commonly tracked as KB5063878) and the social-media reports that the patch “bricked” or made certain SSDs vanish during heavy writes, but the incident exposes a fragile...
Microsoft’s investigation into reports that the August 2025 Windows 11 cumulative update (commonly tracked as KB5063878) was “bricking” some consumer SSDs concludes — for now — that there is no detectable, platform‑wide link between the patch and the drive failures circulating on social media...
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Microsoft’s latest statement closes one chapter of an unsettling August patch cycle: after industry and community investigation, the company says the Windows 11 August 12, 2025 cumulative update commonly tracked as KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946) has not been shown to cause a platform‑wide...
Microsoft’s investigation into reports that the August 2025 Windows 11 24H2 cumulative update (KB5063878) was bricking SSDs concludes, for now, that there is no detectable connection between the patch and the drive failures users reported — but the episode exposes how fragile trust is between OS...
Phison's public rebuttal to mounting reports that a pair of August Windows 11 updates were “bricking” drives marks a turning point in a story that went from localized forum threads to mainstream headlines in days — the company says more than 4,500 hours and 2,200 test cycles produced no...
Microsoft’s latest public update on the mid‑August patch storm is straightforward: after investigation, the company says the August 2025 cumulative rollup did not cause a widespread failure mode that “breaks” SSDs, but the episode still exposes fragile cross‑stack dependencies and persistent...
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Less than two weeks after Microsoft pushed the August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 (commonly tracked as KB5063878 for 24H2), a narrow but alarming failure profile began to circulate among hobbyist test benches and end users: during sustained large file transfers (commonly around 50...
Phison’s lab report and Microsoft’s telemetry have cooled the most sensational headlines about a mass “bricking” event, but the Windows 11 SSD failure story is far from closed: real, repeatable disappearance symptoms were documented by community testers and remain a live risk for certain NVMe...
Phison says its labs found no evidence that the Windows 11 24H2 cumulative update (KB5063878) or the related preview (KB5062660) will “brick” SSDs — a finding that calmed some headlines but left owners, data‑recovery specialists and IT managers with unresolved questions about a narrow...
Microsoft’s August 2025 cumulative rollups have introduced a surprising compatibility regression: launching some MSI‑based applications — most notably AutoCAD family products, Firefox variants, and certain SAP installers — can now surface a User Account Control (UAC) elevation prompt at first...
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Microsoft’s August Windows 11 cumulative update has ignited a fraught, still‑unresolved investigation after community testers and some independent labs reported that sustained heavy write operations could cause certain NVMe SSDs to disappear from Windows — and, in a minority of cases, become...
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Windows 11’s August servicing wave briefly looked like a potential storage disaster: users and hobbyist labs reported NVMe SSDs vanishing during large, sustained writes after installing the 24H2 cumulative update tracked as KB5063878 (and the related preview KB5062660), but Phison — the largest...
Phison’s terse lab summary — that it “was unable to reproduce” the reports that a mid‑August Windows 11 update could “brick” SSDs after more than 4,500 cumulative test hours — changed the tone of a fast‑moving controversy, but it did not close the book on a worrying, reproducible symptom set...
Phison’s terse lab update — that its engineers “could not reproduce” the NVMe disappearances reported after a recent Windows 11 cumulative update — has shifted an alarmed headlines cycle into a cautious, technical debate about reproducibility, telemetry, and how the modern storage stack fails...
Phison’s lab campaign—more than 4,500 cumulative test hours and some 2,200 cycles—says it could not reproduce the Windows 11 KB5063878 “vanishing SSD” reports, but the episode still exposes a brittle cross‑stack interaction that administrators, gamers, and system builders should treat as a live...
Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 (KB5063878) lit a firestorm of community reports claiming large file copies could make some NVMe drives “vanish” or return corrupted after a reboot — but a coordinated vendor investigation led by NAND controller maker Phison found no reproducible...
The recent Windows 11 servicing wave that included security updates KB5063878 and the related preview KB5062660 ignited a flurry of alarm when hobbyist testers and everyday users reported NVMe SSDs disappearing — in some cases permanently — during large sustained writes, and much of the early...
Windows 11’s August servicing wave briefly looked like a storage disaster: community testers reported NVMe drives disappearing mid-write after installing security updates KB5063878 and KB5062660, and many fingers pointed at SSDs using Phison controllers. After an industry investigation...
Phison’s latest test summary puts the disputed SSD failures tied to Windows 11 updates into a new, uneasy middle ground: vendors and Microsoft say they cannot reproduce a widespread “bricking” problem, while a small but alarming set of user reports continues to describe drives disappearing and...
Phison’s lab says the recent Windows 11 cumulative update is not “breaking” SSDs — but the episode lays bare how fragile modern storage stacks can be, how quickly panic and misinformation spread, and why conservative update practices and strong backups remain non-negotiable.
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