Re: HPE SAS Solid State Drives - Critical Firmware Upgrade Required

[Stephen Cotton <stephen@cotton.email>]

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 () mulligan org wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
> > > 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