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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 RS3 on Friday March 27 2020, @02:15PM (2 children)

    by RS3 (6367) on Friday March 27 2020, @02:15PM (#976304)

    Sadly, many firmware (motherboard, auxiliary devices, external devices, hard disks, optical drives, etc.) updaters only run on Windows.

    A few come with self-booting images, IE. - you "burn" the image file to an optical or USB drive, boot from that, and it runs the updater.

    In the olden days many updaters created a bootable floppy disk and you booted that and ran the update.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by maxwell demon on Friday March 27 2020, @05:01PM (1 child)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Friday March 27 2020, @05:01PM (#976375) Journal

    Actually, one mainboard I had had the BIOS updater as part of the BIOS itself: You would boot into BIOS, and then select a special option to read the new BIOS from an USB stick.

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    • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Friday March 27 2020, @08:59PM

      by RS3 (6367) on Friday March 27 2020, @08:59PM (#976454)

      Yes, many do that now, maybe most. And I'm super glad they got away from having to run Windows just to update firmware. :)