There’s a lot of correlation and speculation going on along with deflecting potential liability.
It would seem if you have one of these drives, make sure the firmware is current, and you should be fine. (Prerelease firmware and heavy load seem to be the “triggers”)
If you don’t plan for hard drive failure, you’ll learn that lesson eventually…
The takeaway: Microsoft forced pre-release firmware onto millions of computers.
They’re lucky only a small percentage were damaged tbf.
Edit: on re-readinf I may have parsed this incorrectly
pre-release engineering firmware on certain SSDs, which may have been triggered by the Windows 11 updates.
It may be more like “for some reason some drives have pre-release software and the update… interacts badly with it?”
We don’t actually know that’s the case though.
What’s the other path for this firmware being related to the update?
Maybe I’m missing something
There are a few ways I can think of, such as coming from the factory with en engineering firmware, or a third party (manufacturer) tool pushing the update.
There’s also the question of how M$ would have even got the engineering firmware to begin with. If it did indeed get released through windows update, was it the manufacturer that provided it? M$ can’t really be expected to vet every driver they are provided.
According to the Chinese Facebook group PCDIY! . . .
In a Facebook post, group admin Rose Lee said that the issue has been identified and additionally verified by Phison engineers, thereby giving credibility to the claims.
Ah yes the notably stringent testing and analysis of . . . a Chinese Facebook group
and additionally verified by Phison engineers
