Firmware Upgrade New Samsung 840 Pro?

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Carlosinfl

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I've just got some new Samsung Evo Pro 128 GB SSD's which currently have no data written to them. I'm about to start utilizing these drives very soon and I was wondering if I need to upgrade the firmware on them now considering the Evo had some read performance issues and these drives are brand new so why risk it later w/ data.

When I go to Samsung's site and find my drives, there's nothing to download but a migration tool for helping people migrate data.

Any suggestions for a new SSD owner?
 
Only EVO series got an fw fix so either you have it in which case update, or you have the PRO series which has not been updated a long time. There is no EVO PRO ssd.
 
Yes. I realize now there's no such things as the Evo Pro and I only have the 'Pro' series. Since they're new (to me) and never been powered on from a consumer stand point, I think I will update the firmware regardless just to be safe and feel good inside. I can just attach the drive via SATA to USB 3.0 cable in my MacBook / PC and just launch Samsung's tool, yes?
 
Sometimes you can update firmware over USB, sometimes not. Best to do it over the built-in SATA controller if possible.
 
So I simply slam the new drive in as a slave on a spare SATA connection on any PC and before I partition the disk and add a filesystem to it, I should be able to upgrade it w/ the tool, correct? There are really no instructions nor is this well documented on the web sadly.
 
Carlosinfl said:
So I simply slam the new drive in as a slave on a spare SATA connection on any PC and before I partition the disk and add a filesystem to it, I should be able to upgrade it w/ the tool, correct? There are really no instructions nor is this well documented on the web sadly.
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Yeah, pretty much. Otherwise just use their utility as instructed on their site or in the README or whatever. Source: Have done this with many HDDs and some SSDs (like my Intel 320). Never a Samsung SSD, but I did update a Samsung F3 HDD firmware a few years back and it was via a bootable ISO. I put that on a USB stick (with a utility to boot ISOs from USB like YUMI) and it worked fine. If your drive has an updater for Windows, which some do these days, then that should be fine.
 
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