Windows 10: Latest Windows 11 update reportedly wrecking some SSDs under certain conditions

Take this with a grain of salt, as Microsoft has not officially confirmed the issue at this point. According to reports, which originated from the Japanese website Niche PC Gamer, the latest security update for Windows 11 is causing issues for some users.

Here are the details:

• The issue is reportedly caused after installation of KB5063878 or KB5062660.
  • KB5063878 is the final security update for Windows 11, version 24H2 that Microsoft released on this month's Patch Day.
  • KB5062660 is the preview update of the update, which Microsoft released at the end of July 2025
• The issue may affect systems with solid state drives (SSD) if a) a large number of files or b) a large single file are written to the drives.
• The drive becomes inaccessible in worst case.

One of the first users to report the issue was the X-user Necoru_cat. The user noticed that the issue occurred while updating the game Cyberpunk 2077 after the latest security update for Windows 11 version 24H2 was installed on the system.

The drive that Cyberpunk 2077 was installed on became inaccessible as a consequence. The user noted, that writing more than 50 gigabytes of files continuously to the SDD with a usage rate of at least 60 percent caused the issue. However, the solid state drive would reappear after a restart and become recognized again. Writing large amounts of data to the drive would cause the issue again according to the user. Furthermore, as Niche PC Gamer notes, some SSDs may not become available again even after reboots.

Niche PC Gamer ran tests to find out more about the issue. According to the report, the following SSD are affected by the issue:

1. Corsair Force MP600
2. SSD with Phison PS5012-E12 controller
3. KIOXIA EXCERIA PLUS G4
4. Fikwot FN955
5. SSD with InnoGrit controller
6. Maxio SSD
7. KIOXIA M.2 SSD
8. SanDisk Extreme PRO M.2 NVMe 3 D SSD

The following drives appear unaffected by the issue according to tests:

• Solidigm P44 Pro
• Samsung 980
• SanDisk SSD PLUS 240GB SDSSDA-240G

The X-user ran tests as well and created a list of affected and unaffected SSDs.

Here are the SSD that were found to be affected by the issue:

• WD Blue SN5000 2TB NVMe (restarted to recover)
• WD Red SA500 2TB SATA (restarted to recover)
• WD Blue SA570 1TB SATA M.2 (restarted to recover)
• WD Blue SA510 2TB SATA (inaccessible, not restored even after reboot)
• Corsair MP510 960GB NVMe (restarted to recover)
• Corsair MP600 2TB NVMe (restarted to recover)
• SK hynix Platinum P41 NVMe (restarted to recover)
• Crucial P3 Plus NVMe (restarted to recover)
• ADATA LEGEND 800 2TB NVMe (restarted to recover)
• HP FX7000 2TB NVMe (restarted to recover)
• XPG SX8200 Pro 2TB NVMe (restart to recover)
• Hanye HE70 2TB NVMe (restarted to recover)

And here are the SSDs that were not affected:

• Samsung 990 PRO 2TB NVMe
• Samsung 980 PRO 2TB NVMe
• Samsung 870 EVO 1TB SATA
• WD Black SN7100 2TB NVMe
• WD Blue SA510 1TB SATA M.2
• Seagate FC530 2TB NVMe
• Seagate FC530 1TB NVMe
• Solidigm P44 Pro NVMe
• Crucial T700 2TB NVMe

Microsoft has not responded to the claims officially at this point. If you run a system with one of the SSDs that appear to be affected by the issue, then you may want to be very careful after installation of the update, or even postpone the installation until more details become available.

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