Storage Issues
The latest Storage Issues coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Windows 11 Finally Patches the 500GB Storage Drain: What You Need to Do Now
The July 2026 Patch Tuesday update for Windows 11, KB5101650, contains a fix for a database logging bug that has been silently consuming up to 500GB of drive space on some PCs since early this year....
KB5063878 Broke NDI Streaming on Windows—Here’s the Fix Every Creator Needs
Live streaming took a hit in mid‑August 2025 when Microsoft’s cumulative update KB5063878 for Windows 11 24H2 (and its Windows 10 counterparts) introduced a crippling regression for broadcasters....
Microsoft and Phison Dismiss Windows 11 Update as Cause of SSD Failures After Exhaustive Tests
{ "title": "Microsoft and Phison Dismiss Windows 11 Update as Cause of SSD Failures After Exhaustive Tests", "content": "After weeks of swirling community reports and internal investigations,...
KB5066189: Microsoft's Emergency Fix for Windows Recovery Failures After August Patches
Microsoft shipped an emergency out-of-band update late Monday to rescue a core set of Windows recovery tools that its August 2025 security rollups had silently broken. The patch, KB5066189, addresses...
SSD Vanishing Act: Windows 11 KB5063878 Sparks Data Corruption Fears
The August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 (KB5063878) is triggering a dangerous storage regression: under sustained heavy write workloads, some solid-state drives abruptly stop responding,...
KB5063878 Update Blocks AutoCAD for Standard Users, Corrupts NDI Streams
Schools and labs running AutoCAD on Windows 11 24H2 are in crisis mode after the August 2025 Patch Tuesday update, KB5063878, began demanding administrator privileges just to launch the software. The...
Corsair, SanDisk, Kioxia NVMe Drives Vanish Under Load After Windows 11 Update KB5063878
A routine Patch Tuesday deployment spiraled into a storage crisis this week as Windows 11 update KB5063878 was linked to a wave of SSD and HDD failures, drive disappearances, and data...
Microsoft, Phison Find No Evidence That Windows 11 KB5063878 Causes SSDs to Vanish
After weeks of investigation, Microsoft and SSD controller manufacturer Phison have concluded that they could not reproduce the alarming reports of SSDs vanishing or being corrupted following the...
Phison Investigates as Windows 11 KB5063878 Causes NVMe SSDs to Vanish Mid-Write
Phison has confirmed it is investigating a storage regression tied to Microsoft’s August cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2 that makes NVMe SSDs disappear during heavy sustained write...
Phison Sounds Alarm: Windows 11 KB5063878 Update Causing NVMe SSDs to Vanish Mid-Write
Phison Electronics, the Taiwan-based NAND controller giant behind countless consumer and enterprise SSDs, has officially acknowledged that two recent Windows 11 security updates—KB5063878 and...
Windows 11 Update KB5063878 Makes SSDs Disappear Under Heavy Write Loads
Installing Microsoft’s August cumulative update for Windows 11 version 24H2 is causing certain SSDs to vanish and become inaccessible during heavy write operations, according to a growing number of...
Windows 11 KB5063878 Triggering NVMe SSD Failures Under Heavy Writes
Microsoft’s August cumulative update for Windows 11, KB5063878, is triggering a severe storage fault that causes NVMe SSDs to disappear mid-operation under sustained write loads. Multiple community...