Even if your computer isnt throwing blue screen errors, or if youre not on the new Windows 11 24H2, Western Digital is suggesting you update the drive firmware.

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Western Digital’s remedy was to release a new firmware update; however, this proved to only be a temporary solution as the issue lay much deeper in the devices.

It's best to update SSD firmware on Windows 11/10 if you want fixes, performance improvement, and to avoid data loss due to such bugs. ... Western Digital has a WD SSD Dashboard; ...