{"id":221176,"date":"2025-08-30T04:11:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T09:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/microsoft-says-recent-windows-update-didnt-kill-your-ssd"},"modified":"2025-08-30T04:11:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T09:11:17","slug":"microsoft-says-recent-windows-update-didnt-kill-your-ssd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/microsoft-says-recent-windows-update-didnt-kill-your-ssd","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft says recent Windows update didn\u2019t kill your SSD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/logo.microsoft-says-recent-windows-update-didnt-kill-your-ssd.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has found no link between the August 2025 KB5063878 security update and customer reports of failure and data corruption issues affecting solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives (HDDs).<\/p>\n<p>Redmond first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/microsoft\/microsoft-asks-customers-for-feedback-on-ssd-failure-issues\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told BleepingComputer<\/a> last week that it is aware of users reporting SSD failures after installing this month\u2019s Windows 11 24H2 security update.<\/p>\n<p>In a subsequent <a href=\"https:\/\/admin.cloud.microsoft\/Adminportal\/Home?source=applauncher#\/windowsreleasehealth\/:\/issue\/WI1138854\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">service alert<\/a> seen by BleepingComputer, Redmond said that it was unable to reproduce the issue on up-to-date systems and began collecting user reports with additional details from those affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has found no link between the August 2025 KB5063878 security update and customer reports of failure and data corruption issues affecting solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives (HDDs). Redmond first told BleepingComputer last week that it is aware of users reporting SSD failures after installing this month\u2019s Windows 11 24H2 security update. In [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}