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AMD Radeon Drivers Cause 432GB Daily SSD Writes, Fix Pending

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AMD Radeon drivers contain a bug causing up to 432GB of daily SSD writes. AMD acknowledges the issue and is testing a fix while users apply workarounds.

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Serious Bug In Radeon Drivers Write TONS of Data on your SSD That Will Kill Your SSD long before its lifespan ends. All of you with AMD graphics cards should check your systems immediately. This bug makes your system write all the time in idle. Something that kills SSDs!

AMD acknowledges driver bug causing excessive SSD writes and offers workarounds

The bug is caused by the AMD External Event Utility (ativeclxx.exe). It runs as a background service and somehow interacts with the PCIe filter driver from Microsoft that causes it to write all the time. Even in idle state.

From 1mb/s to 5mb/s is the speed users report which means about 432GB of data written each day. AMD has admitted that the bug is present. Fix is being validated and tested but no timeline has been given for the release.

You can disable the bug by simply disabling the AMD External Event utility in the services manager. But that could break the hotkeys in Adrenalin software. Or you can just disable Resizable BAR in your motherboard bios to stop the interaction that causes the bug (could slightly impact gaming performance though).

So we can see here how fragile interactions can be on driver level with modern components of Windows. In the past, we talked about AMD Radeon Drivers got GDDR7 Support for RDNA5 GPUs. Showing how fast the software side grows with the hardware side.

Source: NotebookCheck

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