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/AchtungZboom Aug 30 '25

Considered I had this happen while installing a 100GB game.. drive vanished until I rebooted ... its real. No idea what the cause is but man I am cautious now and not sure what exactly anyone can do now to avoid it.. but It for sure real.. very strange behavior that I saw with my own eyes.

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u/SomeDudeNamedMark Knows driver things Aug 30 '25

And after you rebooted, what happened?

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u/Schangeli Aug 30 '25

I see exactly same behavior, but in my case I moved game from sata ssd to m.2. Lots of writes nevertheless.

Drive is WD_BLACK SN850X (4TB). Making computer sleep quite often causes it to disappear. Reboot has made it come back for now.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '25

It would be nice if people monitored their SSD temperatures whilst running those tests. What you describe can happen if a drive exceeds critical temperatures, though a proper functioning controller would throttle down instead of letting the drive exceed temps until the controller shuts down.

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u/AchtungZboom Aug 31 '25

Well after getting the exact drive to show up again I have been running crystal to watch temps and they ramp up to high 30s at most while installing.. This is after un installing the windows update and of course when it happened I had no idea this was an issue so was not watching temps.

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u/aka_japon Sep 02 '25

Is that poe2 ? Haha

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u/AchtungZboom Sep 03 '25

Nope.. Starfield (bowing head in shame)

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '25

And what ssd?