[Nottingham] SSD firmware upgrade

[Jason Irwin]

I shall share. It'll be a fully backed-up drive, done on a lappy with a
9-cell battery and a good power supply. If stuff goes wrong here, Samsung
will have SoGA so hard in their face....

On 2 December 2014 at 23:14, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:

> Jason,
>
> On 02/12/14 23:05, Jason Irwin wrote:
> > A UPS....yo assume you have the resources of a minor USAian
> protectorate. :)
>
> I've been glitched out too many times not to always use such things...
>
> Also, Terry Pratchett has written some very apt hilarity on the
> supposedly mythical "one-inna-million" chance...!
>
> Can do you a good deal on new batteries ;-)
>
>
> > It seems that Samsung have found an issue that effects all models of
> > their "Evo" drives. Long story short, write leads to exponential
> > hdegradation of the drive.
> >
> > Seems I'll just have to bite the bullet.....after checking if the drive
> > is still under warranty (it's less than a year old).
>
> [insert whatever cussing for wasted user time for the sake of
> manufacturer over-hasty rush to market]
>
> I'm bound to have some of those in the collective :-(
>
> Care to share the details please?
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
>
> > On 2 December 2014 at 22:42, Martin wrote:
> >
> >     On 02/12/14 19:55, Jason Irwin wrote:
> >     > I have never done one of these. I have never needed to, spinning
> >     rust is
> >     > just far too dumb!
> >     >
> >     > My SSD is a Samsung EVOs and they have an upgrade out to deal with
> >     > performance degradation.
> >     >
> >     > Beyond the usual caveats of "Back-up, back-up, back-up!" is there
> >     > anything I need to worry about?
> >     > I already know to use the server version of their "Magician" disc
> >     > software to create the correct style of boot disc from their
> >     [broken] ISO.
> >     >
> >     > This SSD was serious wedge to me, so I am understandably twitchy
> about
> >     > bricking it!
> >
> >     Now that's something I've so far never been moved to do...
> >
> >
> >     Same caveats as for BIOS updates:
> >
> >     Do you really need to do it?
> >
> >     Follow all instructions exactly;
> >
> >     Use a UPS just in case of that 1-in-million power glitch that
> happens to
> >     be guaranteed at just the most inopportune time...
> >
> >     Report back the results and if any difference noticed.
> >
> >     And good luck.
> >
> >
> >     :-)
> >
> >     Cheers,
> >     Martin
>
>
>
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