Hp warns that some SSD drives will fail at 32,768 hours of use

Browntoa

Firmware update required to fix the affected drives

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/hardware/hp-warns-that-some-ssd-drives-will-fail-at-32-768-hours-of-use/

forgotmyname

Will the drives fail or just some outdated code in the BIOS with a 16bit read limit?

Pop the drives into another PC or after its patched, all good again? Or is the data really dead like the old INTEL SSD 8MB bug?

Neil_Jones

The article implies the drives will die and when an SSD dies it takes everything with it. It's the firmware on the drive that's at fault, not the computer its in.

You should be backing up regularly anyway.

sal_III

You missed the point that it's affecting only some Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) drives, which are used in enterprise kit, not SATA, used by the average consumer.

So unless you are a sysadmin for largeish company, you have nothing to worry about.

harz99

So the thread title should contain the word business or businesses?

ToxicWomble

So it will fail after 4 years of continuous 24/7 use.

That’s pretty good going in my opinion

sal_III

ToxicWomble wrote: »

So it will fail after 4 years of continuous 24/7 use.

That’s pretty good going in my opinion

Not for an enterprise kit (which they are). With about 5 years for servers and 8-10 years for storage arrays life cycles, guaranteed dead at just shy of 4 years sin't good going. Fortunately the FW upgrade fixes it. Unfortunately there are plenty of organisations out there are not on the ball with FW upgrades and will get nasty surprises.

onomatopoeia99

sal_III wrote: »

You missed the point that it's affecting only some Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) drives, which are used in enterprise kit, not SATA, used by the average consumer..

My old home built PC used a 15k rpm mechanical SAS drive as its boot drive.

I'm probably not the average consumer though.

getmore4less

One key point in the article is that these drive are already old enough that they are getting in field failures.

The failure mode is of a type that can render robust storage solutions useless.

High uptime storage solutions can be designed to have single/multiple failures and self recover once a faulty drives are replaced.

Won't work when they all fail at the same time.