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Windows 11 Update KB5063878 Causing SSD Failures

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203 points binwiederhier | 1 comments | 28 Aug 25 09:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.263s | source
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RedShift1 ◴[28 Aug 25 10:14 UTC] No.45050411[source]▶
Is it actually killing the SSD (SSD can no longer be used) or just corrupting the data on the SSD? It's hard to make out from all the comments and news articles.
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toast0 ◴[28 Aug 25 16:15 UTC] No.45053977[source]▶
I've seen lots of SSDs die suddenly (no longer visible on the bus), so I would assume that is what is happening based on the words people are using. I've yet to see an SSD fail to read only mode like they're supposed to... and there's rarely any warning, just working or dead (although I did have a couple that went from working to terribly slow while doing a large reallocation, and we replaced those rather than find out what would happen over a longer term)

That said, people use words with a different meaning all the time, and data corruption could fit as a failure.

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RedShift1 ◴[28 Aug 25 16:39 UTC] No.45054226[source]▶
Failing to read-only is only an Intel thing, I've not seen any other SSD do that...
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1. toast0 ◴[28 Aug 25 17:57 UTC] No.45055048[source]▶
I've not seen an Intel SSD do it either, although I've seen many of them escape their earthly existence :P

There was a firmware bug, but updating the firmware was inconvenient, and the specific interaction that caused the failure wasn't stated, so I couldn't avoid whatever it was; seemed connected to being pretty idle... we had a second data center as an untested "warm" failover target, and disks would tend to die over there where nothing significant was happening.