No, a Home windows replace most likely didn’t brick your SSD

For the final week or two, experiences have been circulating that latest Home windows 11 updates (particularly KB5063878 and KB5062660) have been inflicting some SSDs utilizing Phison controllers to fail. Tech influencers on YouTube and TikTok have been fast to leap on the experiences of corrupted knowledge and disappearing drives, laying the blame squarely at Microsoft’s toes. We’re not saying any firm is above mendacity to the general public, and Microsoft has a historical past of rocky replace rollouts, however each Microsoft and Phison declare they’ve been unable to recreate the problem.