External storage needs have exploded as file sizes balloon with 4K video and high-resolution photos that exceed what internal drives can handle. Samsung recently launched their T9 portable SSDs with ...

A rare firmware error, not the Windows update, was found to cause SSDs to vanish on some Windows 11 PCs.(Unsplash) A number of Windows 11 users have been left scratching their heads after solid-state ...

Reports had suggested Windows 11 security updates were behind some recent SSD issues. Reports had suggested Windows 11 security updates were behind some recent SSD issues. is a senior editor and ...

After Microsoft released the Windows 11 KB5063878 update on August 12, some users, particularly from Japan, claimed that the patch destroyed their SSDs. Later, Microsoft told Windows Latest it’s aware ...

Is a Recent Windows Update Responsible for SSD Failures? Microsoft Has an Answer Your email has been sent Some Windows 11 users are blaming a recent patch for causing data corruption and hardware ...

TL;DR: Windows 11 security updates KB5063878 and KB5062660 sparked reports of SSD failures, mainly involving Phison controllers. After extensive testing, Phison found no reproducible issues or ...

It is the very first thing you need to do. If there are some hardware issues, you won’t be able to solve them by following other solutions mentioned below. As NVMe SSD gets installed directly on the ...

When a computer gets old or when you are handing it over, you must delete everything on the computer. As a matter of fact, it is important that you also securely wipe the computer so the files are not ...

To format an NVMe SSD on Windows 11 is similar to formatting any other drive, whether it’s an internal or external one, placed in an enclosure. NVMe stands for Non-Volatile Memory Express, and it ...

When updating a piece of software as large and complex and old as Windows, you're inevitably going to break something every once in a while. Microsoft tracks known issues here—generally they affect ...

Recently released Windows 11 24H2 updates are reportedly causing data corruption and failure issues for some SSD and HDD models on up-to-date systems. While some of the impacted drives were restored ...

Microsoft told Windows Latest that it’s investigating reports of SSD data corruption/failure after Windows 11 KB5063878. The company has nothing more to share beyond the fact that the issue is finally ...