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

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: 5, Funny) by BsAtHome on Friday March 27 2020, @10:48AM (3 children)

    by BsAtHome (889) on Friday March 27 2020, @10:48AM (#976248)

    The warranty is 5 years.

    That simply means that someone made a mistake in the calculation. It should have been 43800+1 hours to get beyond the warranty period. Probably an MBA rounding numbers in an excel spreadsheet that messed it up.
    /s

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  • (Score: 5, Touché) by Nuke on Friday March 27 2020, @11:03AM

    by Nuke (3162) on Friday March 27 2020, @11:03AM (#976249)

    Not sure if I should have modded this as funny or insightful.

  • (Score: 2) by deimtee on Friday March 27 2020, @08:49PM

    by deimtee (3272) on Friday March 27 2020, @08:49PM (#976448) Journal

    I wonder if they used the same math they use to say it's 800GB or 1.6TB

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  • (Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 27 2020, @11:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 27 2020, @11:55PM (#976511)

    This is modded funny but it should be modded "+5 Plausible."