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An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours

posted by janrinok on Friday March 27 2020, @09:03AM   Printer-friendly
from the you-don't-always-get-what-you-pay-for dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8162:

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.

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  • (Score: 2) by inertnet on Friday March 27 2020, @12:36PM (3 children)

    by inertnet (4071) on Friday March 27 2020, @12:36PM (#976265) Journal

    I'm surprised that these planned obsolescence policies are hardly ever leaked by technicians involved in the design process. Punishment for leaking must be harsh.

    I don't know about the USA but the EU might hand out massive fines again if this gets proven.

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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Friday March 27 2020, @01:07PM (2 children)

    by Bot (3902) on Friday March 27 2020, @01:07PM (#976279) Journal

    Because "the higher number of people are involved in a conspiracy the more risk that someone spills the beans" is a fallacy, empirically speaking. It already happened with dieselgate, it wasn't only VW who cheated. And the fuel efficiency stats are traditionally overestimated. Nobody had interest in losing their job for something the competition probably did too, so... nobody spoke up.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 27 2020, @02:49PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 27 2020, @02:49PM (#976322)

      If nobody spoke up, why did we have Dieselgate?

      • (Score: 2) by toddestan on Saturday March 28 2020, @06:21AM

        by toddestan (4982) on Saturday March 28 2020, @06:21AM (#976572)

        Because the EPA eventually figured out that there was some funny business going on with Volkswagons.