PSA: Samsung Magician 4.6 & 840 EVO "D" firmware update available

[Grooveriding]

Is there a DOS based update for this new firmware ? I have a few of these in RAID and don't want to do the whole backup and restore to run the updates on them in Windows with the raid broken down.

 

[Berryracer]

Is there a DOS based update for this new firmware ? I have a few of these in RAID and don't want to do the whole backup and restore to run the updates on them in Windows with the raid broken down.

yes there is via the ISO, someone on OC Forums who was on RAID was able to update the SSDs without breaking RAID

 

[Micrornd]

yes there is via the ISO, someone on OC Forums who was on RAID was able to update the SSDs without breaking RAID

All the posts I read there indicated breaking the RAID was necessary, so I haven't been able to find it.

Any chance you could link to that?
It would save me a lot of time

 

[Grooveriding]

yes there is via the ISO, someone on OC Forums who was on RAID was able to update the SSDs without breaking RAID

Thanks.

Worked fine for me. I downloaded this ISO http://ssd.samsungsemi.com/ecomobile/ssd/update3.do?fname=/Samsung_SSD_840_EVO_EXT0DB6Q.iso

Burnt it to a USB drive, booted off that and it successfully updated both the drives. RAID was fine afterwards, no data loss. YMMV of course. Still should back up if possible, just in case.

 

[Berryracer]

Thanks.

Worked fine for me. I downloaded this ISO http://ssd.samsungsemi.com/ecomobile/ssd/update3.do?fname=/Samsung_SSD_840_EVO_EXT0DB6Q.iso

Burnt it to a USB drive, booted off that and it successfully updated both the drives. RAID was fine afterwards, no data loss. YMMV of course. Still should back up if possible, just in case.

Thanks for for confirmation of your success story bro

 

[showb1z]

Installed the new firmware a week ago, running HD Tach right after showed a big improvement but not fully there yet. I didn't run the performance optimization tool.
Running HD Tach now, performance has fully restored itself to ~450MB/s. So looks like they finally managed to fix it. Let's hope it stays that way.

 

[birthdaymonkey]

Owner of four Samsung 840 series drives here - 2x 840 Pro and 2x 840. I understand that mistakes get made, but I'm really not impressed with the way Samsung has denied the problem's existence with the original 840. Until they make good on that drive, I will not buy another Samsung SSD.

Techspot just posted a new article with an overview of the problem in case anyone's interested.

http://www.techspot.com/article/997-samsung-ssd-read-performance-degradation/

 

[Berryracer]

Owner of four Samsung 840 series drives here - 2x 840 Pro and 2x 840. I understand that mistakes get made, but I'm really not impressed with the way Samsung has denied the problem's existence with the original 840. Until they make good on that drive, I will not buy another Samsung SSD.

Techspot just posted a new article with an overview of the problem in case anyone's interested.

http://www.techspot.com/article/997-samsung-ssd-read-performance-degradation/

Yes I lost all respect for Samsung, all my SSDs will be SanDisk from now on. tired of dealing with Samsung's crappy firmware and bad customer support.

PS: Still no firmware update for the mSATA version of the 840 EVO

 

[bradley]

Samsung is just a shady company, period. All it takes is an Internet connection and a smattering of intellectual curiosity to arrive at the truth. They will do anything to save a few cents, including using faulty (likely counterfeit) capacitors in their complete monitors line.

Samsung settlement warrants older TVs with faulty capacitors
http://www.cnet.com/news/samsung-settlement-warrants-older-tvs-with-faulty-capacitors/

IMO, Samsung should have skipped any node under 21nm their until 3D NAND process became available. But they got greedy and especially wanted to kludge together TLC-based drives asap.

I'm personally waiting for SSD drives containing Intel/Micron 3D NAND. I can fault Intel for a many things - including anti-competitive practices - but at least they have never sold me anything but quality products.