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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, Interesting) by driverless on Friday March 27 2020, @02:12PM
Good thing we put Samsung 86x SSDs in the HP server rather than whatever crap HP would have supplied us with.
As it was they still managed to screw it up, installing two sticks of RAM with different capacities in AA BB configuration instead of the necessary AB AB, so the machine only used half the RAM it had in there. I know people joke about "support monkeys" but I think in this case they actually had chimpanzees setting up the hardware.