HPE SAS Solid State Drives - Critical Firmware Upgrade Required

Wed Nov 27 00:02:16 UTC 2019

HP tends to run their own firmwares on their drives especially for their blade enclosures etc. 

They have also had lots of bugs and vulns over the years. This isn’t the first. I know a lot of their spindle drives are hgst rebrands and their bugs don’t affect the manufacturers equivalent models. 

I think a lot of the ssds are either intel or Samsung rebrands. 

I’m glad I don’t have to manage them anymore I’ll say that. Having had debilitating firmware bug or two bite me in the past, once on the backup servers (commvault) dedup cache. 

~Stephen Cotton

> On Nov 26, 2019, at 3:59 PM, nanog08 at mulligan.org wrote:
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> Since this is a SSD manufacturer problem does it impact other servers that might have SSD from the same manufacturer???
> 
> HP hasn't said who the manufacturer is?
> 
> Geoff
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>>> On 11/26/19 1:45 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore 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