This is a pretty serious issue from HP, and it’s surprising how long the firmware flaw went unnoticed. SAS SSD failures after 40,000 hours could hit a lot of older deployments, especially in businesses that rarely reboot or replace drives proactively. Good to see a patch is finally available, but many admins will only find out once problems start. For anyone following tech mishaps and industry updates, this reminds me of the discussions happening over at mediaspank.co.uk