HP Warns That Some SSD Drives Will Fail at 32,768 Hours of Use
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Bleeping Computer
HP released firmware updates for a number of its Serial-Attached SCSI solid-state drives to prevent their failure at exactly 32,768 hours of operation time.
The devices are used in multiple server and storage products for enterprise, such as HPE ProLiant, Synergy, Apollo, JBOD D3xxx, D6xxx, D8xxx, MSA, StoreVirtual 4335 and StoreVirtual 3200.
The abnormal expiration time translates to 3 years, 270 days and 8 hours, a lot less than the normal lifespan of these products. For some of them, the warranty can be extended to up to five years. The warning came through a customer bulletin from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) support center and notes that the SSD failure caused by the bug makes both the drive and the data on it unrecoverable.
