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Re: HPE SAS Solid State Drives - Critical Firmware Upgrade Required
From: Paul Nash <paul () nashnetworks ca>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 18:22:05 -0500
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 () 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 -- TTFN, patrick
Current thread:
- HPE SAS Solid State Drives - Critical Firmware Upgrade Required Patrick W. Gilmore (Nov 26)
- Re: HPE SAS Solid State Drives - Critical Firmware Upgrade Required nanog08 (Nov 26)
- Re: HPE SAS Solid State Drives - Critical Firmware Upgrade Required Alex Buie via NANOG (Nov 26)
- Re: HPE SAS Solid State Drives - Critical Firmware Upgrade Required Saku Ytti (Nov 27)
- Re: HPE SAS Solid State Drives - Critical Firmware Upgrade Required Paul Nash (Nov 27)
- Re: HPE SAS Solid State Drives - Critical Firmware Upgrade Required Saku Ytti (Nov 27)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: HPE SAS Solid State Drives - Critical Firmware Upgrade Required Stephen Cotton (Nov 26)
- Re: HPE SAS Solid State Drives - Critical Firmware Upgrade Required nanog08 (Nov 26)