Complete SSD failure: Dell and HPE release firmware against 40K hour bug

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Dell and HP Enterprise are releasing updates today for a critical issue with SAS SSDs in servers. Without the new firmware update the SAS SSD units will fail completely after a 40,000 hour runtime. Firmware updates with the version number HPD7 were provided on Friday for the affected HPE-SAS SSDs, which will correct the problem. Since the error only occurred after 40,000 hours or 4 years, 206 days and 16 hours, this could happen to the affected HPE SSDs at the earliest in October 2020 due to the start of delivery at the end of 2015. If the update is not performed, the SSDs become completely unusable and cannot be recovered.

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