I have submitted a new ticket with Micron support, hopefully they say something.
if they refuse to supply the firmware, i will be letting them know i will contact the Consumer Protection Financial bureau, Federal Trade Commission, and Better Business bureau about not correcting a known defect when the correction is known to be available and works.
if they refuse to supply the firmware, i will be letting them know i will contact the Consumer Protection Financial bureau, Federal Trade Commission, and Better Business bureau about not correcting a known defect when the correction is known to be available and works.
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There is a known firmware issue in firmware versions D1MU004, D1MU020, and D1MU030 that is corrected in a NON-PUBLIC released version of firmware D1MU040 for the 5200 series drives. The issue in older firmware's occurs when the SMART power on hours parameter exceeds 65535 hours.
At the point the counter exceeds 65535 hours, the drive becomes near unresponsive with a data throughout of 1 MB/S or less.
It has been confirmed my multiple people that this issue occurs and it has been confirmed that version D1MU040 corrects the issue. It has been confirmed that the following md5sum hash of the firmware .bin files are available
e8e51fcac5d602685233a4c53b355bf3 crucial/5200/D1MU040/1.bin
d7c3cc2a711635887c7a8c181ad5e8f4 crucial/5200/D1MU840/1.bin
I am requesting a copy of this new D1MU040 firmware to allow me to upgrade my multiple ECO 5200 1.92TB drives as they are NEAR the 65535 hour mark and we cannot allow the system to crash due to the firmware issue.