In a nutshell: Microsoft recently updated Windows Server 2025 with a native NVMe driver that can significantly increase SSD performance. While the new driver is not officially available for consumer ...

Taking a deeper dive into the technical aspects, for years, Windows has employed a general-purpose approach to storage known as SCSI translation. Even when you plug in a super-fast NVMe drive capable ...

Microsoft has officially introduced an NVMe driver for Windows Server 2025 for faster SSD access. Windows 11 also has it. Following Microsoft's explanation of the new approach to NVMe SSDs, it became ...

Traditional Hard drives, or HDD in short, are commonly found in older PCs and laptops. Hard drives are mechanical devices with magnetic platters that spin and an arm that reads or writes data. These ...

In one week, California voters will decide whether to pass Prop 50 and temporarily bypass the state’s independent redistricting commission to draw new congressional maps in Democrats’ favor. The new ...

Social media has recently been lit up with claims that a recent Windows update is killing SSDs. According to Microsoft, Windows isn’t at fault. In fact, recent reports show that this problem only ...

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 ...

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 ...

Both Microsoft and Phison couldn’t recreate issues reported on social media. Both Microsoft and Phison couldn’t recreate issues reported on social media. is the Verge’s weekend editor. He has over 18 ...

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 ...

Correlation without causation was the caveat we applied last week to reports that the KB5063878 update for Windows 11 was nuking SSDs and HDDs. Now SSD controller maker Phison has reported back on an ...

Last week there were reports of SSD failures due to the latest Windows update. SSDs with Silicon Motion controllers are not said to be affected. Writing large amounts of data is said to have led to ...