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Microsoft's August release of the Windows 11 update KB5063878, intended to address reduced gaming performance, has inadvertently triggered a surge of SSD failures. Upon installing this update, some users have encountered SSDs that vanish during large file transfers and fail to reappear after a reboot, leading to data loss. Microsoft is currently collaborating with SSD manufacturers to investigate this issue, and a definitive resolution has yet to be announced. The primary symptoms manifest as SSDs becoming unrecognizable in Windows File Explorer and BIOS, accompanied by I/O errors and unreadable SMART information. This issue typically arises when the SSD's storage utilization exceeds 60% and large-scale continuous write operations are performed.
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