AMD confirms GPU driver bug is wearing out your SSD – how to stop it
ZDNET’s key takeaways
- An AMD utility is causing drives to continuously write and rewrite data.
- A Reddit user reported that their drive’s health was being degraded.
- Workarounds are in place while AMD works on a permanent fix.
Under normal circumstances, an SSD might go all day without needing to access or write files. But for some AMD Radeon users, anything but normal circumstances are causing drives to continuously write and re-write data. The External Events Utility (EEU) that AMD installs alongside its CPU and GPU drivers is reportedly the culprit.
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SSD death by a thousand cuts
Reports of the issue first surfaced in July on AMD’s official PC user forum, with one user stating that the External Events Client Module and EEU were constantly writing information to their SSD after installing a Radeon 9060XT graphics card. Subsequent comments on...
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