HPE SAS Solid State Drives - Critical Firmware Upgrade Required

Wed Nov 27 23:22:05 UTC 2019

I’ve been bitten by these sorts of issues before, so I tend to swap one OEM drive in every RAID-1 pair with a retail drive from (if possible) a different vendor.  When I re-purpose servers, I try to use drives from two different vendors in each array.  That way, if a drive barfs for any intrinsic reason, things keep working.

This can impact performance, but is cheap insurance.

	paul

> On Nov 26, 2019, at 3:45 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick at ianai.net> wrote:
> 
> I do not normally post about firmware bugs, but I have this nightmare scenario running through my head of someone with a couple of mirrored HPE SSD arrays and all the drives going POOF!  simultaneously. Even with an off-site backup, that could be disastrous. So if you have HPE SSDs, check this announcement.
> 
> https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-a00092491en_us
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> -- 
> TTFN,
> patrick
> 