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AMD Radeon Driver Bug Brutalized An SSD’s Health In Just 16 Months, With Its Lifespan Reduced By 14%; Rolling Back To Previous Version The Only Option Available

A Kingston NV1 NVMe 2TB SSD is installed on a motherboard with an AMD heatsink visible nearby.

M.2 NVMe SSDs are durable components and are marketed to withstand terabytes and terabytes of written and read data, meaning that you won’t have to worry about corruption or hardware failure for several years. Unfortunately, one user may not be that fortunate, as he reveals that an AMD Radeon GPU driver bug has caused the drive’s lifespan to reduce by 14 percent in just 16 months. For the record, the company has admitted this bug and says that a fix is on the way. The “atieclxx” background utility triggers excessive disk writes, chewing through 124GB of endurance The problem was brought […]

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