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Re:Upgrading a Toshiba NAS HDD Firmware on Linux by TacticalCoder on Monday September 02, 2024 @08:38AM (#41424934)
> 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?

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Re:Upgrading a Toshiba NAS HDD Firmware on Linux by dark-star on Monday September 02, 2024 @04:51PM (#41428711)
Here'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

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