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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: 0s | 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. kimixa ◴[29 Aug 25 04:45 UTC] No.45060304[source]▶
I had a Crucial drive fail to read-only.

I got the data off, but most of the data wasn't really that important so there might have been dead regions.

I feel that many consumers won't really know if it's still readable, I'd suggest that 90% of people just have a single drive, and windows doesn't cope with a non-writable root drive particularly well.