HP Warning – we will kill your drive after 32,768 hours of operation, unless – !

[Ed P]

A scary warning from HP which made me wonder where I stood with my OEM drives!

Ats Technica article

[Ed P]

Apologies, I made a complete Ars of myself. The Link goes of course to El Reg and not Ars

[Ed P]

Good job I read the article. It prompted me to run CrystalDiskInfo, and one of my larger drives is now in the yellow! I need to see if there is an opportunity to replace it with a larger drive and rationalise some vm storage/backups.

[D-Dan]

Thanks, whilst I suspect not affected in the slightest, I checked and noticed one of my SSDs (both Crucial) had out of date firmware, and since I use Linux, I had to get the bootable iso to update, which is tiny and not interactive.

I also didn’t backup, so scared the living crap out of myself whilst I set it off to update.

Fortunately, all went well and the drive is updated and fine.

Arch Linux, on a Ryzen 7 1800X, 32 GB, 5 (yes -5) HDs inc 5 SSDs, 4 RPi 3Bs + 1 RPi 4B - one as an NFS server with two more drives, PiHole (shut yours), Plex server, cloud server, and other random Pi stuff. Nice CoolerMaster case, 2 x NV GTX 1070 8GB, and a whopping 32" AOC 1440P monitor.

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