AMD confirms bug causing excessive SSD wear
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Summary
If you’ve noticed your SSD filling up or experiencing heavy background activity lately, an ongoing bug in AMD’s software might be to blame. The fault lies within AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition. It has been reported by several users, according to Tom’s Hardware . The underlying cause appears to be the AMD External Events Utility service, which, on some computers, continuously writes data to the system drive. Users have reported write speeds of between 0.3 and 5 MB/s. In the worst reported case, this equates to over 400 GB per day. One user states that the storage device’s reported health status has deteriorated by around one percent a month over a period of 16 months, though this has not been verified. The issue has been reported in both Windows 10 and Windows 11 and appears across several versions of AMD’s drivers, though not all users are affected. AMD has confirmed the bug and states that a fix is expected in driver version 26.11.1, which does not yet have a confirmed release date. PC för Alla To check whether your computer is affected, open the Windows Resource Monitor by pressing Windows + R , typing resmon , and selecting the Disk tab. Look for continuous writes from the processes atieclxx.exe or atiesrxx.exe . You can temporarily resolve the issue by disabling the AMD External Events Utility, though this may affect features such as FreeSync. Of course, waiting for AMD’s forthcoming driver update is an alternative solution.
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