[chbot] [OT] PSA - HPE SSD Firmware will brick drives after 3.5 years.

[Trevor Wignall]

It looks as if they used a signed 16 bit integer for the hours. You would
think that they could have at least used an unsigned integer!
Trevor

On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 7:58 PM Mike Field <hamster at snap.net.nz> wrote:

> Hi,
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> Since quite a few here also get involved in IT work, or may 'catch' things
> on the way to dumpster, so here's a small public service announcement:
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> "Bulletin: HPE SAS Solid State Drives - Critical Firmware Upgrade Required
> for Certain HPE SAS Solid State Drive Models to Prevent Drive Failure at
> 32,768 Hours of Operation"
> https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-a00092491en_us
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> Other brands might also be affected as it is a firmware issue inside the
> SSD, however HP are the only one I have seen announced.
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> What do you think the chances are that drives in a RAID set will have the
> same number of power on hours?
>
> Mike
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