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Back up your HP SSD drives ...

rslade — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 19:35:56 GMT

... and don't use an HP SSD drive to do it.

Various HP SCSI SSD drives will default to shutting down after roughly three years and nine months.

Re: Back up your HP SSD drives ...

denbesten — Fri, 29 Nov 2019 02:50:52 GMT

It's worse than just shut down. The drives brick themselves, leaving you with no way to get to your data after have reached 32768 cumulative powered-on hours. How's that for planned obsolescence?

The particularly nasty part about this is that RAID arrays are likely to completely collapse, given that all the drives share a common power-switch. In this scenario, hot-spares do nothing but give you a false warm-fuzzy.

Re: Back up your HP SSD drives ...

Jreg — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 15:35:17 GMT

Looks like it doesn't affect all of their drives and there are published firmware updates to resolve the issue in the ones that are affected:

https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-a00092491en_us