The takeaway: Microsoft forced pre-release firmware onto millions of computers.

They’re lucky only a small percentage were damaged tbf.

Edit: on re-readinf I may have parsed this incorrectly

pre-release engineering firmware on certain SSDs, which may have been triggered by the Windows 11 updates.

It may be more like “for some reason some drives have pre-release software and the update… interacts badly with it?”

According to the Chinese Facebook group PCDIY! . . .

In a Facebook post, group admin Rose Lee said that the issue has been identified and additionally verified by Phison engineers, thereby giving credibility to the claims.

Ah yes the notably stringent testing and analysis of . . . a Chinese Facebook group