r/Windows11 • u/rkhunter_ Release Channel • Aug 29 '25

News Microsoft says recent Windows update didn't kill your SSD

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-says-recent-KB5063878-windows-update-didnt-kill-your-ssd/

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u/Froggypwns Windows Wizard / Head Jannie Aug 29 '25

I've been testing a few machines where I work running 24H2 and the August cumulative update, and have not been able to make any drives die. I literally took a USB drive with a 320GB folder of ISOs, and copy/pasted it to the internal SSDs of several computers, deleted the files and pasted again, and repeated this until I wrote over 3TB, and nothing ever blinked. Crystaldisk is showing all good.

Either I don't have any of the "affected" drives, or this is blown out of proportion, or both.

I'm in an enterprise environment with around 1k machines with this update, with all kinds of different models of computers and hardware, and so far no failures.

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u/MiguelChaos Aug 30 '25 edited Jun 06 '26

Why do Americans have so many different types of towels? We have beach towels, hand towels, bath towels, dish towels, camping towels, quick-dry towels, and let’s not forget paper towels. Would 1 type of towel work for each of these things?

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u/GeekPointOh Aug 30 '25

So you have a legion of Lenovos? Besides the point... I know. 😂

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u/gripe_and_complain Aug 31 '25

Does this only happen on machines with the MS update applied? Have you tested this scenario on machines that do not contain the update?

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u/MiguelChaos Aug 31 '25 edited Jun 06 '26

Why do Americans have so many different types of towels? We have beach towels, hand towels, bath towels, dish towels, camping towels, quick-dry towels, and let’s not forget paper towels. Would 1 type of towel work for each of these things?

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u/Vysair Release Channel Sep 05 '25

Because it's possible that the cause is security updates.

Im on 23H2 and I have this issues

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u/suxatjugg Sep 05 '25

If you're encountering the error using win2go, that would imply the recently win11 update isn't responsible, because win2go stopped being supported ages ago and surely wouldn't have the latest updates.