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But how does that brick the device? I guess the hour counter overflows, goes negative and that screws up a calculation later on, causing the firmware to crash (over and over again..)

If only SSD vendors would do the usual cost-cutting measure of loading firmware from the host computer, this could be trivially fixed.



Please no. I may actually want to boot from one of those devices.


Somewhere in the UEFI kitchensink there certainly is firmware loading support already.


What do you mean? The fix is to load a firmware update from the host computer.


Not once you are past 32768 hours, apparently.


Usually the SMART counter just wraps around back to 0. In this case it becomes negative because it was read as a signed short.




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