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

AMD GPU users report that the Adrenalin driver utility atieclxx.exe is causing excessive SSD writes that degrade drive health by approximately 1% per month. Redditor Darklinkpower documented losing 1% of SSD health monthly over 16 months. Tomasz Gawroński on X reported the utility performed 19.5 GB of I/O writes in 12 hours on their machine.

The bug appears to have been present since Adrenalin Edition 26.7.1, released in June. Multiple reports emerged across Reddit's r/pcmasterrace and Radeon subreddits, though the issue does not affect all machines. AMD representative AMD_Matt stated on the community forums that the company is "looking into it with the aim to resolve it in a future driver release."

AMD_Vik confirmed on Reddit that the disk write issue "should be fixed" in Adrenalin 26.11.1, expected to arrive later this month, though no exact release date was provided.