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> Updating HDD firmware is something you do to resolve a very specific problem, not ... just because it's available. Indeed. As an anecdotical data point: numb
by TacticalCoder 2y ago
> Updating HDD firmware is something you do to resolve a very specific problem, not ... just because it's available.
Indeed. As an anecdotical data point: number of personal and servers HDD firmware upgraded over four decades (!)... Zero.
Zero isn't not a lot.
We should ask people who know what it's like to have a lot of HDDs: does BackBlaze upgrade their HDDs' firmwares?
- dark-star 2y agoHere's another datapoint: number of personal and servers HDD firmware upgraded over three decades: a couple thousand. Our storage systems at work regularly ship firmware updates with bugfixes. I have never seen a FW update introduce new bugs. But of course there has been the occasional HDD that didn't spin up during the (required) power cycle