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smart data
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.
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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backup
backup and recovery
data corruption
data integrity
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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
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nvme
nvme ssd
os build 26100.4946
phison
phison controllers
release health
smartdata
ssd
ssd firmware
ssd-regression
storage regression
troubleshooting
vendor advisories
vendor management
windows 11
windows update
wsus-sccm
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...
backup
data corruption
disk management
dram-less
firmware
hmb
it administration
kb5063878
nvme
os build 26100.4946
phison
sccm
smartdata
ssd failure
storage regression
windows 11
windows update
wsus
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...
bad sectors
bsod
diagnostics
firmware
hdraedon
memtest86
power management
power supply
ram
random issues
sata cable
smartdata
ssd
storage
testing
troubleshooting
voltage issues
windows 7
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...
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...