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Gospel according to HPE: And lo, on the 32,768th hour did thy SSD give up the ghost

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Re: So bad...

"just extending the variable would "work","

Could be the earlier version of the firmware used an 8-bit counter, and it was extended to 16 because, wow, that's a lot of hours. Probably decades worth, innit?

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