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rslade
Influencer II
‎11-28-2019 02:35 PM
‎11-28-2019 02:35 PM

Back up your HP SSD drives ...

... 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.


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denbesten
Community Champion
‎11-28-2019 05:38 PM
‎11-28-2019 05:38 PM

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.

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Jreg
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‎12-05-2019 10:35 AM
‎12-05-2019 10:35 AM

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

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