GoKawiilAMD confirms Radeon driver bug causes excessive SSD writes, fix due this month
AMD has officially acknowledged a long-standing bug in its Radeon GPU drivers on Windows that triggers the External Events Utility's atieclxx.exe process to continuously write log data to the system drive, even when idle. Users have reported write speeds of 0.3 to 5 MB/s, potentially generating hundreds of gigabytes daily, and some claim measurable SSD wear over time. AMD says a permanent fix is being validated and will ship in its next driver update later this month.