Bug causing early death of Intel 320 SSDs

Posted on Monday, July 11 2011 @ 22:40 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

The Register reports some users of Intel's 320 solid state disks are suffering from a bug in the controller that can revert the device to 8MB during a power failure:

"Poster Goose" wrote a message on 1 June, quoting from a PC Review forum:

Be wary of the new Intel SSD 320 series. Currently, there's a bug in the controller that can cause the device to revert to 8MB during a power failure. AFAIK they have not yet publicly announced it, and won't have a firmware fix ready for release until the end of July.

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