- Microsoft has completed his investigation into the reports of an SSD rupture bug
- The company said that the August update for Windows 11 is not to be blamed
- There are still reports of filtering readers, however, and some people are not satisfied with Microsoft’s conclusion
Microsoft has investigated the most recent Windows 11 update reports by breaking certain SSDs, and we now have the results of this company – and the company has found that the August fix for the operating system is not to be blamed.
Bleeping Computer reports that Microsoft has published a service alert on its administration center (a link that cannot be attached to the Normal Microsoft accounts, only commercial accounts) indicating the following: “After an in -depth survey, Microsoft did not find any link between the Windows security update in August 2025 and the types of hard drive failures reported on social media.”
Microsoft added: “As always, we continue to monitor the comments after the release of each Windows update and will investigate all future reports.”
Note that Microsoft mentions the “hard drive failures”, and it is because the problem has also struck hard drives, on the basis of reports – although the majority of incidents affected the SSDs.
Microsoft has worked with its partners to investigate the problem, including SSD manufacturers (and hard disk) as you can expect, but in collaboration, they have not revealed any proof of a connection between the most recent update for Windows 11 24:2 and the disk defaults reported.
Indeed, we have already heard PHison directly, which makes controllers for the SSDs that have suggested are more likely to be involved in these failures, refuting this notion and clearly indicating that he could not reproduce the bug (on 4,500 hours of testing).
Microsoft also specifies that its Windows 11 telemetry – diagnostic data from computers running its operating system – shows no evidence of an increase in the reader’s failures either.
Analysis: coincidence and “natural” – or something else?
In short: there is nothing to do here, go. Based on Microsoft’s survey – which took some time, so I guess I went deep (Phison certainly did it) – the update of Windows August 11 is not responsible for the breakdown of SSDs or hard drives (and pHison controllers either).
The problem is that there are still some Windows 11 users who publish on online forums, such as Reddit, insisting that they have made their SSD flow by this last update for Windows 11. Again, there are others publishing on the management of PC fleets and seeing nothing with this cumulative update having been applied – not even a point of PC through these computers.
So what’s going on? A theory broadcast is that it could be a coincidence – driving failures occur all the time, and therefore during a given week, some Windows 11 PCs will see some breaks in this regard. And because there are reports on the August update being the problem, people will assume that it is fault, when it is not.
However, you could certainly say that there are too many reports for this to be a comfortable conclusion. In addition, if it was a case of stories wrongly natural readers to the question, it will also indicate that the older equipment is affected – because failures are more likely to occur with older SSDs – but there are new (or almost new) readers reports by this bug.
There is another possibility here that, even given the Microsoft declaration that there is nothing wrong with Windows 11, there could still be something about the August update – buried in depth, perhaps – that is more likely of equipment in certain discs more likely to happen. In other words, it would not necessarily be Microsoft’s fault, but it could still be indirectly updated.
However, with Microsoft and Phison, apparently unable to reproduce the buckt on a whole test load, it seems rather improbable. What brings us back to: What is going on with these relationships that still flow? There is no clear answer here, but there are clearly unhappy people who publish online on their SSD misfortunes.
It is worth returning to the apparent cause of the bug, which launches a significant copy of files – like a game installation, for example. As the Bleeping computer points out, the problem seems to be more likely to occur if your reader is half full (60% or more). According to reports, the affected SSD disappears outside the system – although in some cases it returns after a simple restart (in others, this is not the case, which is obviously a big headache).
Windows 11 Home users can only resume the installation of a cumulative update for a short time, they will therefore get it through their machine, if they tried to avoid it. At this stage, it belongs to the individual user how confident they feel if they want to perform a heavy file operation such as installing a game or a large application. If they are always paranoid and their reader is almost full, they could just want to play safely for the moment.
Microsoft notes that he can “investigate future reports”, so we can still hear more of the business; But for the moment, he seems to want to trace a line under the question. And for the moment, we must trust Microsoft and Phison ‘conclusions – although there are obviously people who remain skeptical and that we have not always arrived at the bottom of this episode.
