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    Phison Study Reframes Windows 11 SSD Issue: Firmware, BIOS, and Edge-Case Failures

    Phison’s latest public testing and community forensics have reframed the mid‑August Windows 11 SSD scare: what began as frantic reports that the Windows 11 August cumulative updates (commonly tracked as KB5063878 and the related KB5062660) were “bricking” NVMe drives now appears to be a...
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    Windows 11 Update: SSD Failures Linked to Engineering Firmware, Not Production Firmware

    A small Taiwanese PC‑building community may have just pulled a loose thread that explains a wave of terrifying reports about Windows 11 “bricking” SSDs: the drives that failed in public tests were running pre‑release, engineering firmware — not the production firmware shipped to regular...
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    Windows 11 August Patch Triggers SSD Failures: Firmware Provenance Under Scrutiny

    Windows 11’s August cumulative update set off an alarm in enthusiast circles when a string of reproducible tests showed NVMe SSDs vanishing under sustained large writes — but the emerging, vendor‑validated explanation reframes the catastrophe as a narrower supply‑chain and firmware‑provenance...
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    Windows 11 KB5063878 SSD Issues: Firmware Edge Case and Recovery

    A sudden wave of reports last month that solid‑state drives were vanishing from both File Explorer and UEFI/BIOS left Windows 11 users alarmed — but the truth, based on community forensics and vendor testing, is more complicated than a simple “bad Windows update” narrative...
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    Phison Firmware vs Windows 11 Update: The SSD Failure Debate Explained

    In a story that moved swiftly from Reddit threads to high-traffic YouTube videos and mainstream tech headlines, recent reports blamed Microsoft's Windows 11 updates (notably KB5063878 and KB5062660) for a rash of SSD failures. The picture that has emerged after vendor investigations is more...
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    External Portable Storage: SSDs vs HDDs, Interfaces, and Real-World Speeds

    External portable drives remain one of the most practical — and fastest — ways to move, back up, and archive large volumes of data, and our hands-on testing confirms that the current crop of external SSDs and HDDs gives buyers choices that span blistering performance, rock-solid value, and...
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    Engineering Firmware Behind SSD Disappearances - Not a Windows 11 Fault

    A fresh line of forensic work from community labs suggests the wave of disappearing and allegedly “bricked” NVMe SSDs that alarmed Windows users in August may not be a mass Windows regression at all, but instead a narrower supply‑chain and firmware‑provenance problem: pre‑release (engineering)...
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    Windows 11 KB5063878 SSD Failures: Firmware Provenance and Phison Link

    Windows 11 users and system builders were jolted in mid‑August when a flurry of reports described NVMe SSDs suddenly disappearing, corrupting files or becoming completely inaccessible during large, sustained writes — an incident initially blamed on Microsoft’s August cumulative update...
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    Pre-release Phison Firmware Caused NVMe SSD Vanish After Windows 11 Update

    Phison’s pre-release controller firmware has emerged as the most plausible explanation for the wave of NVMe SSD “vanishing” and bricking reports that followed Microsoft’s mid‑August Windows 11 cumulative updates — a finding that reframes the incident from a suspected OS regression into a...
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    Windows 11 KB5063878 SSD Failures: Pre-release Firmware, Not the Patch

    The short version: the recent wave of reports that Windows 11’s August cumulative update (KB5063878) was “bricking” NVMe SSDs has been reframed by community investigators and vendor labs — the immediate trigger appears to have been pre‑release engineering firmware on a small subset of drives...
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    Why the August Windows 11 Patch (KB5063878) Isn’t the SSD Killer: Firmware Provenance

    Microsoft’s August Windows 11 patch is no longer the prime suspect in the recent wave of “vanishing” NVMe drives — mounting evidence points to pre‑release controller firmware and supply‑chain provenance, not the KB5063878/KB5062660 updates themselves, as the root trigger in the cases...
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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...
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    Windows 11 KB5063878 SSD Issue: Firmware, OS Changes, Forensics

    Phison’s latest public testing and fresh community forensics have changed the tone of an urgent story that began as “Windows 11 is killing SSDs” and quickly morphed into a complex investigation at the intersection of OS updates, controller firmware, and supply‑chain quirks — with no single party...
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    Engineering Firmware May Explain Windows 11 KB5063878 SSD Failures

    A cluster of community test benches and vendor statements now point to a supply‑chain firmware issue — not a Windows code regression — as the most plausible explanation for the mid‑August reports of NVMe drives “vanishing” during large sequential writes after the Windows 11 August cumulative...
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    Engineering Firmware Behind NVMe SSD Disappearances After Windows 11 Update

    The investigation into a wave of disappearing and allegedly “bricked” NVMe SSDs that followed Microsoft’s August Windows 11 security rollup has taken a new turn: community researchers now say the problem was triggered not by Microsoft’s patch but by pre-release engineering firmware present on a...
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    Windows 11 KB5063878 SSD Issue: Engineering Firmware Theory and Guidance

    A cluster of community test benches and vendors dug into one of this summer’s more alarming update chases: after Microsoft’s August 12, 2025 cumulative for Windows 11 24H2 (KB5063878) some users reported NVMe drives disappearing mid‑write and, in a minority of cases, returning corrupted or...
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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...
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    Move Windows User Folders to a Fast SSD for a Snappier PC

    I moved my Windows user folder to another SSD and the system felt like it shook off months of sluggishness almost overnight. Background The Windows user profile — the folder at C:\Users[YourName] — is the single place where Windows keeps your desktop, Documents, Downloads, Pictures, Music...
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    Windows 11 August 2025 KB5063878: WSUS 0x80240069 Fix and NVMe Storage Mystery

    Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 — shipped as KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946) on August 12, 2025 — has become the subject of two very different but intersecting headaches: an enterprise deployment regression that broke WSUS/SCCM installs (error 0x80240069) and a cluster of...
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    Microsoft: KB5063878 Update Didn’t Break SSDs—What It Means for Windows Users

    Microsoft has concluded its investigation into the mid‑August reports that a recent Windows 11 security rollup (commonly tracked as KB5063878) “bricked” or corrupted some SSDs, saying it found no reproducible link between the update and the wave of drive disappearances — a position echoed by SSD...
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