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SSD drives from HPE could self-destruct in 3 years

Windows 10 Disk Cleanup; 7GB of disk space

<p>HPE &lpar;Hewlett Packard Enterprise&rpar; has warned its customers about a recently discovered bug in their range of SSD SAS drives&period; This bug could auto-destruct 20 different HPE SSD drives after 3 years of operation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-2938" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;wincert&period;net&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;01&sol;hard-disk-drive&period;jpg" alt&equals;"7GB of disk space" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"426" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The problem is not related to drives itself but rather their buggy firmware&period; HPE confirmed that this bug will auto-destruct the drive after 3 years&comma; 270 days and eight hours of operation&period; If the drive fails&comma; data will be lost without any chance of recovery&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>HPE already started rolling out firmware updates for affected SSD models and is urging users to install the firmware once released&period; The company also states that users are accepting the risk of data loss if they disregard the update notification and recommended firmware update&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hewlett Packard Enterprise has not provided an explanation of how this bug occurred&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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