Cisco is not a SSD manufacturer. They write industry-wide bug. Does that mean that more than one SSD manufacturer is affected (because they use partially the same firmware)? Further down they mention only Sandisk.
Or is the industry-wide just their newspeak for saying any Sandisk of affected model, regardless whether installed in a Cisco box or somewhere else?
I suspect that "industry-wide bug" in this context is simply Cisco pointing out to their customer base that this isn't Cisco's fault and please don't blame Cisco.
I'm interested here too. I've got a Crucial SSD from 2015 that's been on about:
* 100% of 2015-2017, let's add 2 years here
* Aboutish 50% of days since 2018 to 2020
* On and off again (5%?) since then until now.
So it's about 3 years of full use? I'm eyeballing the use here. So it may be close to the numbers that were given, but I'm not sure. Guess I could check the SMART stats to get a precise number and from there decide what to do about it.
Searching a bit it seems it's a well-known bug in "enterprise SSDs"[0, 1] (which my drive certainly isn't) but there aren't any real details about what causes it, other than "a firmaware bug".
Enterprise SSDs are commonly made by one of a handful of dominant companies and then rebranded by server vendors, so that you can see a SanDisk or Samsung SSD sold as a Dell EMC or Cisco or HPE drive.
