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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 RS3 on Saturday March 28 2020, @06:13AM
Thank you for the high praises.
I don't know if he did pay me for that, but he gave me a couple of things worth $, including an awesome cable tester called a "Swizz Army" https://www.ebay.com/itm/Ebtech-Swizz-Army-6-In-1-Cable-Tester-Tone-Tester-w-Phantom-Power-Detection/313034155509 [ebay.com] if anyone ever needs such a thing. Does test tones, detects intermittents (LED latches ON to show intermittent- very useful), etc.
It was more a matter of me keeping him in business so I could get more work through him. I can't even guess how much all those studio tracks were worth. The drive was full. Close to 1,000 hours of mono track (24 bit samples, 96k/s sample rate), many were paid musicians, etc.
A huge percentage of non-IT knowledgeable people have no clue about storage reliability (lack of), doing backups, etc.