Microsoft told Windows Latest that it's investigating reports of SSD data corruption/failure after Windows 11 KB5063878.

SMART, which is a self-diagnosis function of HDD, records data transfer speed, energization time, HDD temperature, frequency of seek error, number of start / stop of disk rotation motor, etc ...

Backblaze speculates that you probably misspelled the name of the SMART item. ・SMART 17: Unknown (Seagate) I only know that Seagate SSD SMART reports this item, and I don't know what it is.

Just when Windows 11 was finding some stability, another update has started to create major trouble. The latest cumulative ...

We recently covered a study by Secure Data Recovery, an HDD, SSD, and RAID data recovery company, of 2,007 defective hard disk drives it received. It found the average time before failure among ...

The latest findings by cloud storage company Backblaze, which analyzed the annualized failure rates of more than 270,000 hard drives in 2023, HDDs are becoming less reliable overall.

Therein lies the problem. I am used to interpreting SMART data and running tools like HDD Regenerator to prove the failure, but only for HDD's. The laptop in question has a Samsung OEM SSD.

If your PC's hard drive is acting up, use these tools on Windows 10 to check the SMART data to find out if the drive is failing.

For the first time, Backblaze's latest report on storage drive reliability is focusing on Solid State Drives (SSD) rather than HDD units alone. The company started using ...