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    Silicon Motion Gen5 SSD Ramp Ties to Windows 10 End-of-Support Wave

    Silicon Motion’s move to accelerate production of PCIe Gen5 controllers coincides with an unexpectedly brisk corporate refresh cycle driven by the upcoming Windows 10 end-of-support deadline, and together these forces are reshaping the client SSD supply chain, NAND demand dynamics, and the...
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    Silicon Motion: No Early Failures in SSDs Amid Windows 11 Update

    Silicon Motion's early reassurance — that “so far, none of our controllers are affected” by the Windows 11 update that has been making some NVMe drives disappear under sustained writes — is an encouraging datapoint, but it is provisional and incomplete: the incident remains an active...
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    Windows 11 KB5063878 Storage Regression: SSDs Vanish Under Heavy Writes

    Windows 11’s August cumulative update (KB5063878) has been linked to a reproducible storage regression that can make certain SSDs and HDDs disappear under sustained large writes, and Silicon Motion — according to community‑sourced forum responses — reports none of its controllers have shown the...
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    Windows 11 KB5063878 Patch Tuesday: SSDs Vanish Under Heavy Writes

    A wave of reproducible reports and a parallel burst of misinformation have combined to create one of the more consequential Patch Tuesday headaches in recent memory: Microsoft’s August 12, 2025 cumulative for Windows 11 (KB5063878) has been linked to SSDs disappearing under sustained, heavy...
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