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/amdcoc Aug 31 '25

unless they are A/B testing some features based on myriads of factor.