News Western Digital releases fix for Windows 11 24H2 BSODs — users are strongly advised to update their SSD firmware

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There are SO MANY gaming machines on 2TB sn770s as it has basically the best random iOPS performance out of any of the budget gen4 drives while being nearly as cheap as the TeamGroup and Crucial budget drives. That’s terrible. I’ve got a machine with one as the OS drive. Oh joy.
 
I have two of the affected drives, both mounted in UGreen external enclosures for use with Win11 laptops. After the warranty runs out on the laptops, I plan to use them to replace the OEM drives. Will the firmware update work with the external enclosures? If not, I have two 2TB drives that I can't use for the next 8 1/2 to 9 months.
 
Well that aged like milk fortunately Diceman, there was a new firmware update and even a Dashboard update for this issue the very evening you wrote the comment that the firmware did not fix the issue.
Unfortunately the list of discs affected is a lot longer than in the article, and there is a missunderstanding that it is only affecting 2TB units from someone using 2TB units as model examples.. I just learned from Sandisk support that even my old WDC BLUE SN550 is one of them, and it causes crashes and bluescreens only by being in the system and used for downloads and a couple of games. ... So expect that a substantial part of the affected discs are just being updated before people realize there was a problem. Many people just swap them and think it propably was worn out. Because that is the fast and easy way, and they will rather do that than dealing with customer supports or warranty service that propably is taking time, and they need the PC to be stable and working YESTERDAY, since most of us use it for several things work and privately related stuff. This was discovered very early fortunately. And I don't believe for a second that the companies does not take advantage of the situation that people think their older units that is known only by a few people yet to be affected are not known. They happily sell you a new SSD rather than banging the big drum and tell people in a press release that EVERYONE that has a WDC nvme SSD in their system should download the software named Dashboard from WDC/Sandisc site and upgrade the firmware, and the fix is aplied in 5 seconds max!
Anyhow here is the link.
https://support-en.sandisk.com/app/...date-available-for-solving-bsod-on-windows-11
 
This explains problems I saw when MS Upgraded my system to 24H2 earlier this year and it started BSOD with every single reboot. They finally shot up a dialog saying basically "This has not gone well, would you like to return to 23H2?" Hell yes.

Oh, and the fact that Samsung fracked up a year ago isn't an excuse for WD to threaten us with data loss for their (or MS's) mess.
 
DaveM1485 said:
I have two of the affected drives, both mounted in UGreen external enclosures for use with Win11 laptops. After the warranty runs out on the laptops, I plan to use them to replace the OEM drives. Will the firmware update work with the external enclosures? If not, I have two 2TB drives that I can't use for the next 8 1/2 to 9 months.
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Yes it will. It will just be slower funneling everything through usb but if you’re using external drives then you’re already used to that.
 
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