The Sandy Bridge SATA issue did make big waves back then and Intel did a recall IIRC. Only the B2 stepping of chipsets should be affected by this tough. https

The Sandy Bridge SATA issue did make big waves back then and Intel did a recall IIRC. Only the B2 stepping of chipsets should be affected by this tough. https://www.anandtech.com/show/4142/intel-discovers-bug-in-6series-chipset-begins-recall https://www.anandtech.com/show/4142/intel-discovers-bug-in-6... https://techreport.com/news/20326/intel-finds-flaw-in-sandy-bridge-chipsets-halts-shipments/ https://techreport.com/news/20326/intel-finds-flaw-in-sandy-...