Earlier this month, Microsoft released the August 2025 security update for Windows 10 and 11. Shortly after, a rather concerning report emerged about Windows updates breaking SSDs and corrupting data.

Windows 11 seems to be chock full of annoying issues, even before updates add new ones. My install insists on jumping the cursor to the middle of the previous window when I close one. This isn't ...

Microsoft’s big April patch (update KB5083769) has been causing numerous problems on Windows 11 machines these past few weeks ...

Word is circulating around the Internet that the latest Windows 11 update may be causing some potentially serious problems for SSD owners. More specifically, some users in Japan have reported that ...

TL;DR: Recent reports linked Windows 11 security updates KB5063878 and KB5062660 to SSD failures during large data transfers, especially on DRAM-less drives with Phison controllers. However, after ...

Social media has recently been lit up with claims that a recent Windows update is killing SSDs. According to Microsoft, Windows isn’t at fault. In fact, recent reports show that this problem only ...

Microsoft has found no link between the August 2025 KB5063878 security update and customer reports of failure and data corruption issues affecting solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives (HDDs) ...

With SSDs this time--my PC became barely responsive just a few days ago and now I'm wondering if this was the cause. I definitely don't want any fried SSDs. Unfortunately I have both KB5062660 preview ...

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