Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) issues a support bulletin for customers of SAS SSDs from the company warning certain models can permanently fail after 32768 hours (or 3 years, 270 days and 8 hours) of operation unless patched.
As per the bulletin, the bug causes "drive failure and data loss at 32768 hours of operation and require restoration of data from backup in non-fault tolerance, such as RAID 0 and in fault tolerance RAID mode if more drives fail than what is supported by the fault tolerance RAID mode logical drive." HPE adds should the storage device fail, "neither the SSD nor the data can be recovered," and SSDs put in service in a batch can likely fail simultaneously.
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