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

Some AMD graphics card users report that Adrenalin’s atieclxx.exe utility is writing unusually large amounts of data to their SSDs, potentially reducing their reported drive health. AMD says it is investigating, and a representative says the issue should be fixed in a future driver update.

Reports include users seeing SSD health fall by about 1% a month and one user recording 19.5 GB of writes in 12 hours. The problem has been linked to Adrenalin 26.7.1, released in June, but does not affect every machine and could not be reproduced on one test system. AMD expects the fix in version 26.11.1, due later this month, though it has not given an exact release date.