• /firmware-bug-will-brick-some-ssds

    From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to Warpslide on Sun Jun 28 17:24:00 2020
    Hello Warpslide!

    ** On Sunday 28.06.20 - 07:20, Warpslide wrote to poindexter FORTRAN:

    Especially when the manufacturer has a bug that would cause some of their enterprise SSD drives to fail after exactly 40,000 hours of operation:

    https://www.zdnet.com/article/hpe-says-firmware-bug-will-brick-some-ssds-s tarti ng-october-this-year/

    Imagine being that IT guy... Everything is chugging along nicely and then suddenly every drive in your RAID fails at almost exactly the same time. Lets home they tested their disaster recovery!

    As a former firmware programmer, I can't imagine how this flaw was even allowed to be implemented in the SSD device.



    --- OpenXP 5.0.45
    * Origin: (} Pointy McPointFace (21:4/106.21)