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Windows 11 Updates Linked to Drive Failures as Phison Teams With Microsoft, Denounces Fake Memo

Reports cite failures during sustained large writes after the August KB5063878 and KB5062660 releases.

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Overview

  • Phison says potentially affected controllers are under review and confirms coordination with Microsoft on diagnosis and remediation.
  • Microsoft has not issued a detailed public acknowledgment, but BleepingComputer reports the company is working on a fix.
  • Phison says a falsified document blaming its controllers is circulating and says it has taken legal action while stressing the issue spans multiple vendors and even some HDDs.
  • Community testing reports failures after roughly 50GB of continuous writes, with higher incidence on fuller drives and some DRAM-less models, leading to vanishing drives and possible data corruption.
  • User reports name models from SanDisk, Corsair, Maxio, and KIOXIA, and outlets advise backing up data and avoiding large or rapid consecutive writes until a verified fix is released.