Anonymous Coward User ID: 77430875 United States 12/12/2019 12:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Bug In Solid State Drivers Sold By HP & Others May Render Them Unusable After 3 Years… Expiration dates for computer drives? That’s what a line of HP solid-state drives are facing as the variable for their uptime counter is running out. When it does, the drive “expires” and, well, no more data storage for you! YOUR DRIVE IS GOOD FOR ABOUT 3 YEARS AND 9 MONTHS [ link to hackaday.com (secure)] |
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User ID: 77119763 United States 12/12/2019 12:36 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Bug In Solid State Drivers Sold By HP & Others May Render Them Unusable After 3 Years… Everything has a certain "shelf life". What's the deal OP? Mini Y2K? I am SNOWIE. WELCOME TO THE NEW ICE AGE. TRY NOT TO STARVE. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77849624 United States 12/12/2019 12:39 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Bug In Solid State Drivers Sold By HP & Others May Render Them Unusable After 3 Years… They do it on purpose, obviously |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 76715453 United States 12/12/2019 12:57 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Bug In Solid State Drivers Sold By HP & Others May Render Them Unusable After 3 Years… Very interesting. I had a SS die on me 20 months ago--no warning. It was a strange deal--bios said it was there and was fine, but it could not accessed or re-formatted. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77849624 United States 12/12/2019 01:02 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Bug In Solid State Drivers Sold By HP & Others May Render Them Unusable After 3 Years… HP has been doing it for 20 years
time for a class action suit |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 72081011 Canada 12/12/2019 01:04 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Bug In Solid State Drivers Sold By HP & Others May Render Them Unusable After 3 Years… Drivers can be updated, they will be. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77849624 United States 12/12/2019 01:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Bug In Solid State Drivers Sold By HP & Others May Render Them Unusable After 3 Years… |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77849624 United States 12/12/2019 01:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Bug In Solid State Drivers Sold By HP & Others May Render Them Unusable After 3 Years… Drivers can be updated, they will be.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 72081011 not a driver and there is no fix from manufacturers you have to use a patch created by hackers that discovered the planned flaw. |