AMD users are reporting a misfiring utility is eating SSD health by 1% a month. AMD says a fix is on the way for its GPU drivers

I fear opening the Pandora's box that is my SSD's health report. I'd much rather live in ignorance until the day it inevitably fails on me. Some eagle-eyed AMD GPU users, however, have spotted their own SSD health dropping much faster than they expected, and have placed the blame squarely on an AMD Adrenalin driver utility.

Redditor Darklinkpower has flagged the issue on the r/pcmasterrace subbreddit. "I just found out that the driver eats up 1% of my SSD health every month for 16 month," says the redditor, "where[as another] user reported losing approximately 1% of their SSD health every month."

The reports come from multiple sources, including the Radeon subreddit, and Tomasz Gawroński on X, who says that Adrenalin driver utility atieclxx.exe had performed 19.5 GB of I/O writes on their machine in just 12 hours. According to Gawroński, the bug has been present since Adrenalin Edition 26.7.1 released in June of this year.

The issue doesn't appear to …