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What to Do if a Bug in Your AMD GPU Is Wearing Down Your SSD

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What to Do if a Bug in Your AMD GPU Is Wearing Down Your SSD

AMD says it's working on a software fix for a bug causing excessive writing to drives.

Machines that use AMD graphics hardware such as these Radeon 6800 cards may be affected by a bug in the company's driver software that is causing unnecessary writing to solid-state drives, which can wear them down over time.

AMD is working on a software update to fix a driver issue that causes excessive, continuous data writes to solid-state drives across its Radeon GPU lineup.

First reported on sites including Tom’s Hardware and Neowin, the bug has been traced to two pieces of software: AMD External Events Client Module and Utility, known as atieclxx.exe or atiesrxx.exe under Windows processes. The background service handles monitoring functions, but as some users have noticed, it’s also writing a large amount of data to SSDs, as much as 432GB in 24 hours, according to Neowin.

This excessive data writing is a concern because it can accelerate the wear and tear on an SSD, potentially shortening its lifespan. According to PC Gamer, that could mean losing 1% of the drive’s health in just a month. As one Reddit poster pointed out, this is not a new bug and in one case may have caused SSD degradation for nearly a year and a half.

In an email to CNET, an AMD spokesperson said the company didn’t have additional details but pointed to a help article that mentions its Adrenalin Edition driver software, which includes the External Events software as a background process.


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