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 VacuumTube on Tuesday March 31 2020, @10:12PM (1 child)
Actually I used to love programming in assembler, but that was long before the days of SSDs and I guess I don't think in those terms any more. So thanks for the thought experiment. It brought back fond memories.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Tuesday March 31 2020, @10:36PM
You're quite welcome. Come to think of it, I don't do much assembler these days either and I'm itching to get back into it. Maybe.
Yeah, I don't know how you could prevent these kinds of disasters without doing really good testing, code reviews, etc. Unfortunately companies are run by MBAs who see QC as being costly / overhead / loss. And that aside, egos are usually a pretty big moat to cross.
BTW, I'm a vacuum tube hacker (too) and your username reminds me of a couple of projects that I could be working on while we wait for the world to hopefully to return to normal, or whatever the new normal becomes...