Intel Confirms Data Corruption Bug, Halts New SSDs 137
CWmike writes "Intel has confirmed that its new consumer-class X25-M and X18-M solid state-disk drives (SSDs) suffer from data corruption issues and said it has pulled back shipments to resellers. The X25-M (2.5-inch) and X18-M (1.8-inch) SSDs are based on a joint venture with Micron and used that company's 34-nanometer lithography technology. That process allows for a denser, higher capacity product that brings with it a lower price tag than Intel's previous offerings, which were based on 50-nanometer lithography technology. Intel says the data corruption problem occurs only if a user sets up a BIOS password on the 34-nanometer SSD, then disables or changes the password and reboots the computer. When that happens, the SSD becomes inoperable and the data on it is irretrievable. This is not the first time Intel's X25-M and X18-M SSDs have suffered from firmware bugs. The company's first generation of drives suffered from fragmentation issues resulting in performance degradation over time. Intel issued a firmware upgrade as a fix."
Re:Typical redditor (Score:1, Funny)
"Or are you just new around here?"
I would ask the same of you, replying to an obvious troll like that :P
Next "Ask Slashdot"... (Score:4, Funny)
"How to recover lost/corrupted files from an SSD?"
Re:I've seen this before (Score:5, Funny)
You'll sleep better that way.
Re:I've seen this before (Score:4, Funny)
The maid I can understand, but if your neighbor's kids are anything like mine, they're not innocent.
Was stuff like this not expected? (Score:1, Funny)
It is called the bleeding edge for a reason.
Problem is, in the future as hardware is becoming more complicated I think we're going to see more and more issues like this. It seems that it's mostly engineers that end up writing the code at this level, especially when dealing with hardware, and they just can't write software for crap. I have worked with many over the years and there is not one I would consider capable of writing something that needed to be very reliable.
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