Do you have a NAS box or any of these devices. Major flaw in Intel chip warning. (1 Viewer)

[Gromett]

Intel have announced a flaw in their C2000 Atom chip which is used in NAS boxes from Synology and many other devices.

The problem is the devices will fail 18+ months after they start operating and this is likely to be outside the warranty period for many consumer products.

This is worth a read...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/06/cisco_intel_decline_to_link_product_warning_to_faulty_chip/

 

[makems]

Thanks for the heads up Karl. Fortunately my NAS box is too old to have one of these chips and is already 5 years old and still going strong.

 

[TheCaller]

First thought - oh bugger - I have a Synology NAS box just coming up to 14 months continuous up time.

Second thought - phew! It's a DS-416, which according to the data sheet has a Annapurna Labs Alpine AL-212 dual-core 104GH CPU. Never heard of one of those before, but at least it's not a C2000 series Atom - unless there has been some re-badging going on.

I really must get round to updating the operating system on it. Synology released a major new version about a year ago, but early on it seemed to have quite a few problems, so I was in the 'If it ain't broke .....' camp for a while. Time to see if it's more stable now, because it did have some handy new features. Not that I can remember what they were now, so they can't have been that vital!

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[Larrynwin]

I see WD my cloud not included, just bought mine and 2 years warranty so should be ok.

 

[Lenny HB]

Phew! bought a Lenovo ix2 NAS drive last week, just checked it uses a Marvell processor.

Thanks for the heads up Grommet.

 

[TheCaller]

.....has a Annapurna Labs Alpine AL-212 dual-core 104GH CPU.

That would have been nice it it were true. Not sure how that typo slipped through, but 1.4GHz is sadly more realistic!

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