Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) warns its customers that some of its SSDs will fail after 40.000 hours of operation unless you install a critical patch.
The current issue concerns SSD drives in servers of Hewlett Packard and in productstorage such as HPE ProLiant, Synergy, Apollo 4200, Synergy Storage Modules, D3000 Storage Enclosure, StoreEasy 1000 Storage.
Η company had made a similar announcement in November 2019 when the firmware flaw caused it to fail after 32.768 hours of operation. At its new announcement states that the affected ssd drives are running a version firmware older than HPD7, and will fail after activation at 40.000 hours. This translates to about 4,5 years and is about half a year earlier than the extended warranty available for the product.
Be careful because when 40.000 hours have elapsed, neither the data nor the drive can be recovered. Preventing such a catastrophe can only be overcome by backing up data.
Hewlett Packard was notified of the firmware bug by an SSD manufacturer and warns that if SSDs are installed and powered on at the same time they are likely to fail almost simultaneously. The new firmware can be installed using a online flash item for VMware ESXi , Windows and Linux.
Hewlett Packard estimates that unpatched SSDs will start failing by October 2020. This gives administrators plenty of time to apply the patched firmware.
