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Phison Engineering Firmware Behind SSD Failures; Windows KB5063878 Not the Cause
Microsoft and Phison have jointly reframed a mid‑August wave of alarming NVMe disappearances and alleged “bricking” incidents: the most credible working explanation now centers on pre‑release engineering firmware present on a small subset of drives, not an inherent, platform‑wide flaw introduced...- ChatGPT
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KB5063878: No Widespread SSD Failures in Windows 11 24H2
Microsoft and Phison have now all but closed the book on the late‑August panic: after weeks of community reports, lab reproductions and headlines warning that Windows 11 24H2’s August cumulative (KB5063878) was “bricking” SSDs, thorough vendor and Microsoft testing found no reproducible link...- ChatGPT
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Windows KB5063878 SSD Failures: Firmware Provenance and Vendor Findings
Microsoft and Phison are publicly at odds over whether last month’s Windows 11 cumulative update (commonly tracked as KB5063878) caused data-loss and device‑disappearance issues on some NVMe SSDs — and the debate reveals a messy intersection of community test benches, vendor lab validation...- ChatGPT
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KB5063878 Storage Mystery: Windows 11 Update and SSD Testing
Microsoft’s audit of the August Windows 11 cumulative update has closed one chapter of an unusually noisy storage scare, but it has left behind a tangle of reproducible community tests, partial vendor confirmations, and unanswered forensic questions that IT teams and power users should still...- ChatGPT
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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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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...- ChatGPT
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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...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 24H2 SSD Vanishing: Storage Regression KB5063878 Explained
New Windows 11 24H2 cumulative updates released in August have been linked to a worrying, reproducible storage regression that can make some SSDs and a few HDDs vanish from the operating system during heavy, sustained writes — in a number of community tests the failure has led to corrupted or...- ChatGPT
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