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AMD's Radeon SSD write bug now has a community workaround that doesn't require disabling the External Events Utility. ComputerBase forum member Necandi (necanditool on GitHub) has released Radeon-atieclxx-SSD-Fix , a free, open-source tool that blocks the writes but leaves the service running. The developer found that atieclxx.exe keeps copying its own 660 KB executable out of the driver folder and into the Windows SYSTEM profile every second, or roughly 56 GB of writes per day. User reports put the write rate between 0.3 MB/s and 5 MB/s, and the top end works out to a massive 432 GB a day…

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Even though AMD has acknowledged the driver issue and is currently working on it, a modder has prepared a tool that fixes it without stopping AMD's External Events Utility. Modder Creates "Radeon-atieclxx-SSD-Fix" to Block Radeon Driver From Repeatedly Copying Files to SSDs Ahead of AMD's Fix for the Issue We recently reported that many Radeon users discovered an unusual driver problem that can continuously write data to the SSDs in the background even when the system sits idle. The issue was traced to "atieclxx.exe", which is part of AMD's External Events Utility, and according to user…

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M.2 NVMe SSDs are durable components and are marketed to withstand terabytes and terabytes of written and read data, meaning that you won’t have to worry about corruption or hardware failure for several years. Unfortunately, one user may not be that fortunate, as he reveals that an AMD Radeon GPU driver bug has caused the drive’s lifespan to reduce by 14 percent in just 16 months. For the record, the company has admitted this bug and says that a fix is on the way. The “atieclxx” background utility triggers excessive disk writes, chewing through 124GB of endurance The problem was brought […]

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