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HPE fixes another SAS SSD death bug: This time, drives will conk out after 40,000 hours of operation

Wayland

32768 a number I remember well. It was the location of the first character on a Commodore P.E.T display.

POKE 32768,65

would put an A there

It's actually 2^16 so the 16th address line on a 6502

65 being the ASCII code for A

It sounds like there must be some sort of clock inside these SSDs because why else would it be counting hours. Also perhaps it's supposed to die when that number runs out but it was either supposed to be a bigger number or a slower count.

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