Synology Issues Press Release on Blue Blink of Death Problem Affecting Some 2012 NAS Devices

If you have read my earlier posts about the problems rebooting some recent Synology NAS devices, specifically, the DS1512+, DS1812+ and the DS212j (Asian shipments only), (see posts here and here), you may remember that there were hints that the problem was a hardware issue that Synology was near to tracking down.

Synology today issues a press release indicating that they had tracked the issue down to bad flash memory chips:

Synology® Fixes Vulnerability in a Small Batch of

Synology fixes the blue blink of death issue affecting the DS1512+ and DS1812+ models.