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Microsoft swats down reports of SSD failures in Windows — company says recent update didn't cause storage failures - tomshardware
So, what caused the failures?
There has been news in the latter half of August that Windows update KB5063878 has reportedly been killing SSDs, especially when performing continuous file writes exceeding 50GB on a drive that’s at least 60% full. Still, Phison recommends that users with heavy storage workloads install heatsinks on their SSDs if they haven’t already done so to reduce the chances of thermal throttling. It claimed that there was no increased risk of disk failure or file corruption after doing internal testing, and telemetry data also did not yield any meaningful results.
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