PSA: As of the latest AMD Adrenaline update, a bug may be causing silent, constant writes to your SSD, unnecessarily killing its lifespan.
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u/darklinkpower in
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A bug has been reported in the latest AMD Radeon drivers that causes repeated, unnecessary writes to the SSD.
SSD health decreases by 1% each month; while several workarounds have been discovered, side effects have also been reported.
This issue was reported by Reddit user darklinkpower.
According to the report, the user had been experiencing a phenomenon where their SSD’s health declined by 1% each month for 16 months.Investigation revealed that the “AMD External Events Utility” service—linked to the “atieclxx.exe” and “atiesrxx.exe” processes—repeatedly writes at a rate of approximately 5 MB/s to the system disk even when there are no tasks requiring access.
Users have discovered two workarounds for this issue: one involves stopping the “AMD External Events Utility” service via the Control Panel and disabling it from startup; the other involves disabling Resizable BAR, which reportedly resolves the issue.
However, in the case of the former workaround, darklinkpower noted a side effect in his RX 6700 XT setup: frame rate becomes quite unstable when using Lossless Scaling’s 2x frame generation. Regarding the latter workaround, he also stated that disabling Resizable BAR could potentially cause other issues.
Additionally, a Reddit user named AMD_Vik—believed to be an AMD staff member—has posted about this issue, commenting that while an exact date cannot be given, the problem should be fixed in the 26.11.1 driver, which is expected to be released later this month.
If you’re concerned, please check your SSD’s health using various tools, take appropriate action at your own discretion, and try updating the driver after confirming the fix at a later date.
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