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  1. Phison: No Repro of NVMe Disappearances After Windows 11 Update; Heatsinks Recommended

    Phison’s latest public stance changes the tone of what started as a panic: after industry-wide reports that a mid‑August Windows 11 cumulative update could cause NVMe SSDs to disappear during long writes, Phison says its internal testing — described as extensive — was unable to reproduce the...
  2. 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...
  3. Windows 11 KB5063878: SSDs Vanish Under Heavy Writes — What You Need to Know

    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...
  4. Windows 11 Aug 2025 Update Breaks Some SSDs on Large Writes — What to Do

    Microsoft and several SSD vendors are investigating reports that the August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 (KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) can trigger a storage regression that makes some SSDs disappear during sustained, large writes — a failure mode that, in a minority of reports...
  5. Windows 11 24H2 KB5063878 Storage Regression: SSDs Disappear Under Heavy Writes

    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...
  6. KB5063878 Windows 11: Drives Vanish Under Heavy Writes—Pause Updates

    Microsoft’s August cumulative (KB5063878) is making some SSDs and HDDs vanish mid‑write, and a patchwork of community testing, vendor responses and cautious guidance now makes a compelling case for pausing non‑urgent Windows updates and treating large, continuous file transfers as high‑risk...
  7. Windows 11 24H2 August Update Triggers NVMe Storage Regression (KB5063878)

    Microsoft’s latest cumulative for Windows 11 24H2 has been tied to a small but serious cluster of storage failures that can make NVMe SSDs disappear during heavy writes and, in a handful of cases, leave data unreadable — a scare that underscores why updating and backup discipline still matters...
  8. Windows 11 KB5063878 Storage Fault: Drives Vanish Under Heavy Writes

    Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 — KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946) — has been linked by independent testers and enthusiast communities to a reproducible and severe storage fault: under sustained large sequential writes (reports center around the 50 GB range), certain NVMe SSDs—and a...
  9. Windows 11 24H2 Storage Regression: NVMe Drives Vanish on Large Writes

    Microsoft’s staggered Windows 11 24H2 rollout has tripped a serious compatibility landmine: scattered but reproducible reports show that one recent cumulative update can cause some NVMe SSDs to become unresponsive or vanish during sustained large writes, and earlier instances of the 24H2 feature...