GoKawiilAMD's External Events Utility is excessively writing to SSDs, company confirms
AMD has acknowledged a bug in its External Events Utility (EEU), a component bundled with its GPU and CPU drivers, that continuously writes and rewrites data to storage drives. Users on Reddit and AMD's forums reported data write rates between 0.3 MB/s and 1.5 MB/s, with one user citing roughly 1% SSD health loss per month over 16 months. An AMD representative said a fix is expected in an upcoming update, and in the meantime users can disable the EEU service via Windows services manager.