Some Radeon users report that AMD’s External Events Utility, installed with Adrenalin drivers, continuously writes data to their SSDs - even when their computers are idle. One owner says the drive’s reported health fell by 1% each month for 16 months; another observed sustained writes of about 5 MB per second. AMD has acknowledged investigating the bug and said a fix is expected in a future driver, possibly the next release. Reports span multiple driver versions, and the company has not identified which configurations are affected.
At 5 MB per second, the activity amounts to roughly 432 GB of host writes per day, or nearly 13 TB per month. That does not directly establish how much SSD flash wear occurs, because drive controllers manage writes through caching and wear-leveling; the claimed health decline has not been independently verified. Users can check Windows Resource Monitor’s Disk tab for sustained writes by atieclxx.exe or atiesrxx.exe. Reported workarounds include stopping or disabling AMD EEU, or turning off Resizable BAR, which may affect gaming performance. Monitoring activity is advised while AMD works on a fix, rather than changing services or BIOS settings without first confirming the problem.
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