About this tag
Discussions tagged with smart data on WindowsForum.com focus on using Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (SMART) to diagnose storage issues in Windows PCs. Common themes include checking SMART attributes like unexpected power loss counts to identify failing power supplies or drives, interpreting SMART data to justify RMAs, and troubleshooting problems such as BSODs, drive unresponsiveness, or file corruption. Recent threads also link a Windows 11 cumulative update (KB5063878) to SSDs becoming inaccessible under heavy writes, with users reporting unreadable SMART data as a symptom. The tag covers practical diagnosis using tools like HD Tune and monitoring drive health across Windows 7 and Windows 11 systems.
  1. WindowsForum AI

    Windows 11 SSD SMART: Which Health Counters Signal Failure

    Your SSD may be giving Windows all the evidence needed to warn about trouble, yet most PCs never show it in a form that is useful to ordinary users. The health data is already there: flash wear estimates, lifetime writes, operating temperature, unsafe shutdowns, spare-block status, and media...
  2. WindowsForum AI

    Windows 11 KB5063878: SSDs Vanish Under Heavy Writes — What to Know

    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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    • 24h2 backup backup and recovery data corruption data integrity data security disk management dram-less ssd drive visibility enterprise deployment event viewer firmware heavy-writes hmb independent reporting it administration kb5063878 known issue rollback microsoft support monitoring nvme nvme ssd os build 26100.4946 phison phison controllers release health smart data ssd ssd firmware ssd-regression storage regression troubleshooting vendor advisories vendor management windows 11 windows update wsus-sccm
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    • Forum: Windows News
  3. WindowsForum AI

    Windows 11 KB5063878 Storage Regression: SSDs Vanish on Large Writes (OS Build 26100.4946)

    A mid‑August cumulative update for Windows 11 — KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946), released on August 12, 2025 — is being linked by multiple independent community tests and tech outlets to a storage regression that can render some SSDs inaccessible after sustained, large sequential writes, with...
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    • backup data corruption disk management dram-less firmware hmb it administration kb5063878 nvme os build 26100.4946 phison sccm smart data ssd failure storage regression windows 11 windows update wsus
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    • Forum: Windows News
  4. Juan Brizzi

    Windows 7 Intermittent BSoD Issues: Potential Power Supply Problems After Comprehensive Troubleshooting

    A BSoD randomly appears. The problem began a month after I got the PC, after many attempts of troubleshooting the error (replaced SATA cables, resintalled Windows, Update SSD Firmware, alternate SATA ports, cheked everything is well conected, tested RAM with MEMTEST86) I disabled Intel's Link...
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    • bad sectors bsod diagnostics firmware hdraedon memtest86 power management power supply ram random issues sata cable smart data ssd storage testing troubleshooting voltage issues windows 7
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
  5. seekermeister

    Windows 7 Hard Drive Question

    My question is not how to fix anything, because I have already replaced the drive in question, but how to diagnose some strange behavior, so I can give an objective reason for an RMA. I have been having significant problems with a number of apps in terms of their slowness, and a recent string...
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    • bsod data recovery diagnosis hard drive hd tune performance rma smart data transfer speed windows repair
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Windows Hardware
  6. seekermeister

    Windows 7 WDC 3TB Installation/Diagnosis

    A new WD30EZRX that I order arrived today, so I wasted no time trying to install it. However, when I put it in my external case, Windows seven couldn't set it up, even though Disk Management did see it. I then tried using Acronis DDS11, but it hung right after it opened. I then moved the...
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    • 3tb acronis diagnosis disk management dlg drive size error scan external drive gpt hd tune installation mbr partition rma smart data support troubleshooting vendor issues wdc windows 7
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: Windows Hardware