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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 27 2020, @10:31AM (5 children)
Know what businesses want? Certainty. Exactly 40k hours, nothing more, nothing less. And HPE OBVIOUSLY knows bidness.
HPE Smart.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday March 27 2020, @11:06AM
I guess some engineer took the programmed obsolescence too literally.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 27 2020, @03:12PM
Know what businesses want? Certainty.
I certainly didn't work harder than exactly what I was being paid to do too.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 27 2020, @05:41PM (2 children)
Good thing HPE doesn't make ventilators.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 27 2020, @05:48PM (1 child)
Make America Gasp Again.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 31 2020, @05:39AM
lol