Latest Windows 11 security patch might be breaking SSDs under heavy workloads — Phison investigating reports of disappearing drives following file transfers, including some that cannot be recovered...

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/latest-windows-11-security-patch-might-be-breaking-ssds-under-heavy-workloads-users-report-disappearing-drives-following-file-transfers-including-some-that-cannot-be-recovered-after-a-reboot

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Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 349d (2 replies)

Disappearing drives? Mine has been doing this shit randomly on boot since day 0. Boot up, sometimes it'll boot to OS and storage drive will be missing...other times it dumps me straight to UEFI because boot drive is missing. These aren't partitions either...whole ass, physical drives.

the_crotch@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 349d (1 reply)

Sounds more like a hardware problem. Pull them out and reseat them.

Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 349d

You'd think... that's why I did that...and then replaced them... twice, along with the mobo and cpu as well.

cmeu@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 349d

Remember when updates were optional, so users could be sure they didn't install ones that did this kind of thing? Pepperidge farm remembers..

Evil_Opossum@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 350d (1 reply)
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the_crotch@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 349d

That is not the behavior described by the article. This is about SSDs disconnecting from the OS when performing large copies/moves