An enterprise SSD flaw will brick hardware after exactly 40,000 hours:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has warned that certain SSD drives could fail catastrophically if buyers don't take action soon. Due to a firmware bug, the products in question will be bricked exactly 40,000 hours (four years, 206 days and 16 hours) after the SSD has entered service. "After the SSD failure occurs, neither the SSD nor the data can be recovered," the company warned in a customer service bulletin.
[...] The drives in question are 800GB and 1.6TB SAS models and storage products listed in the service bulletin here. It applies to any products with HPD7 or earlier firmware. HPE also includes instructions on how to update the firmware and check the total time on the drive to best plan an upgrade. According to HPE, the drives could start failing as early as October this year.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Nuke on Friday March 27 2020, @11:26AM (6 children)
You never discovered that taking the button battery out of HP printers defeated the time limit? I'm still using the HP cartridges that Moses handed down.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 27 2020, @12:27PM (5 children)
I like how HP inkjets run a "clean heads" job every time you turn it on, then run out of magenta ink which mostly never gets used in the first place and locks out the entire printer until it's replaced. I trashed the inkjet and bought a Canon laserprinter. I may have accidentally dropped the old HP inkjet on the garage floor... I was finding small parts of it for years.
(Score: 4, Informative) by driverless on Friday March 27 2020, @02:04PM (1 child)
Brother inkjets do that too, fortunately you can put some duct tape over the part of the tank that they use to sense the ink levels and "reset" it to full.
(Score: 2) by jimtheowl on Friday March 27 2020, @08:16PM
They are meant to be cheap to buy and expensive to run. No surprise that many resellers used to throw them in with the sale of a desktop computer as an incentive for the ill informed buyer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 27 2020, @02:40PM (1 child)
It's hard to find fault with that, if you've had the privilege of supporting seldom-used inkjets without such a feature. You'll waste at least as much ink trying to clean the printheads after the ink dries out from a month without printing, and what's worse, you'll do it under time pressure; the whole reason Mom even knows the printheads dried out is because she wants something printed.
Sure, some of us do print quite regularly, and then these extra cleaning cycles are unnecessary, but there's probably more printers sitting in homes seldom used than in offices, or in the minority of homes that actually print regularly.
(Score: 3, Funny) by EEMac on Friday March 27 2020, @03:12PM
> there's probably more printers sitting in homes seldom used than in offices
And unfortunately, homes that rarely print are more likely to buy inkjets. It's incredibly frustrating to live near one of these.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 27 2020, @07:45PM
They aren't going to put some sort of battery-backed RTC in there. It has no idea how long it has been off or if maintenance is required, so it just assumes it is and does the clean and self test. Can't really fault it for that. Maybe you should leave your printer on and it will waste less.