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: 2) by RS3 on Friday March 27 2020, @03:03PM (1 child)
That example looks cool, but further searching reveals shortcomings: it probably can only do RAID 0, which is no good. Also, I don't think it does wear-leveling, TRIM, etc., so again, no good. But the concept is great.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 27 2020, @03:17PM
I's a terrible concept because you can just buy two normal SSDs of comparable storage capacity for the price of the micro-SD cards you pin this thing, still have change left over, and the normal SSDs will perform better and last longer.