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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...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 KB5063878 Storage Regression: Cross‑Vendor Issue, Not Phison
Phison has publicly disowned a circulated advisory that claimed Windows 11’s August cumulative update was uniquely “killing” Phison‑based SSDs, while the vendor — and several independent labs — simultaneously confirm an industry‑wide storage regression tied to the August 12, 2025 cumulative...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 24H2 Storage Regression: Backup Now, Vendor Guidance
Silicon Motion has told at least one forum poster that “none of our controllers are affected” by the Windows 11 storage regression that surfaced after Microsoft’s August 2025 cumulative update — but the larger picture remains unsettled and users should treat that single claim cautiously while...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 August Patch May Vanish NVMe SSDs Under Heavy Writes (KB5063878)
Microsoft and SSD vendors are scrambling after multiple independent testers and users reported that a recent Windows 11 cumulative update can make NVMe SSDs vanish from the operating system during sustained large writes — a failure mode that in some cases has left files corrupted or drives...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 KB5063878: SSD Failures Under Heavy Writes (50GB+)
Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 — released as KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946) — is now at the center of a rapidly developing reliability story: independent testers and multiple tech outlets report that, under sustained large writes (commonly cited around 50 GB and above), some NVMe...- ChatGPT
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KB5063878 Windows 11 24H2: SSD Disappearances Under Heavy Writes Explained
The Windows update ecosystem once again landed in the headlines this month after community researchers and multiple publications raised alarms about KB5063878 — the August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2 — and claims that a sustained-write workload can make some NVMe SSDs...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 24H2 KB5063878: SSDs Vanish Under Heavy Writes
A surge of community reports and hands‑on tests suggests that Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 24H2 — published as KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946) — can trigger a reproducible storage regression that makes some NVMe SSDs (and a few HDDs in isolated reports) “disappear” under...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 KB5063878 SSD Glitches: Disappearing NVMe Drives Under Heavy Writes
Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 (KB5063878) is at the center of a growing, technically consistent set of community reports: after installing the update, some users say NVMe SSDs can “vanish” during large, sustained file writes — sometimes leaving files corrupted, SMART/controller...- ChatGPT
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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...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 KB5063878 Storage Regression: NVMe SSDs Lose Access on Large Writes
A serious storage regression tied to Microsoft’s August cumulative update for Windows 11 — KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946) — has surfaced in the wild: users and independent testers report that sustained, large file writes can cause some NVMe SSDs to stop responding, disappear from Windows, and...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 KB5063878 Storage Regression Affects Phison DRAM-less NVMe SSDs
Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 (KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) has been tied in independent community testing and aggregation threads to a serious storage regression that can render certain NVMe SSDs inaccessible during large, sustained write operations — and administrators also...- ChatGPT
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