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Title    An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours
Date    Friday March 27 2020, @09:03AM
Author    janrinok
Topic   
from the you-don't-always-get-what-you-pay-for dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/03/26/0934249

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8162:

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.

Original Submission

Links
  1. "upstart" - https://soylentnews.org/~upstart/
  2. "An enterprise SSD flaw will brick hardware after exactly 40,000 hours" - https://www.engadget.com/2020-03-25-hpe-ssd-bricked-firmware-flaw.html
  3. "HPE" - https://www.engadget.com/tag/hpe/
  4. "bulletin" - https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docLocale=en_US&docId=a00097382en_us
  5. "here" - https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docLocale=en_US&docId=a00097382en_us
  6. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=39985
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