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Do you have a link for the old Intel bug? Here's one for a new Intel bug after just 1700 power-on hours on some enterprise-class SSDs that are still being sold today: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...

That's just 71 days of uptime and they hang. There are tens of thousands of these drives deployed as well.

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Oh boy. We had somerhing like 5 our of 8 drives fail all at the same time. All of them were affected models bought at begining of summer and failed a couple months later.

It was a pretty maddening thing to debug and figure out where the issue was (servers, rack, drives, RAID do controllers). 2 different machines 2 and 3 drives. Week later we found the Intel bulletin about the issue.

Thank God for pgbackrest backups.

Why are they allowed to still sell these broken products? That's a scam as far as I'm concerned.

They released a fix for existing devices, replaced affected devices that had been bricked, and included the fix as part of the manufacturing process for new devices being built.

It was certainly very inconvenient having to reboot systems while we waited for a fix to exist, fortunately we didn't lose too many disks before the fault was identified, which reduced the man hours involved in the DCs.

I'm not sure if any part of this is a scam. A bug, certainly.

New drives already had the updated firmware back in May when I bought some.

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