They have windows and mac one, but no Linux: http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/download/tools.html
How to update the m2 SSD firmware?
They have windows and mac one, but no Linux: http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/download/tools.html
How to update the m2 SSD firmware?
This answer from an Apple MacBook user suggests that using dd
to copy the ISO9660 CD image to an USB stick (at block device level, not a partition level) may work. I find this strange since it would mean that tools like UNetbootin or USB creator do essentially nothing besides calling dd
on a device.
Disclaimer: There is a risk of losing your SSD and the data stored on it when updating to a new firmware!
Here are the steps:
sudo smartctl -a /dev/nvmxxx
on your SSD (replace "xxx" by your actual device name); here is an example output.initrd
and extract it (drag and drop it outside of the archive and into your file manager window).initrd
with an archive tool (you need to double click twice) and look for the folder root/fumagician
; again extract it (drag and drop it outside of the archive).F4
in some file managers), go inside the folder fumagician
you just extracted and run sudo ./fumagician
.sudo
.sudo smartctl -a /dev/nvmxxx
should display the updated firmware version. In my case the updated firmware version would not show until the restart.Remark 1: It seems possible to update from an OS running on the target SSD and I saw YouTube videos showing the SSD Magician tool on Windows doing such hot updates, i.e. on a SSD being used. But I am not entirely sure whether this is safe. The issue is that the OS will write to the SSD after the update procedure but before the restart. There is a risk that the SSD does not handle correctly those writes, hence losing data.
Remark 2: If UNetbootin is used to create a bootable USB stick from the ISO then the USB stick needs to be formatted with MBR and FAT32; GPT and/or ext4 did not work for me. There is a bug in the ISO image provided by Samsung with AMD based systems. USB and more specifically USB keyboards and mice will not work; since most modern mainboards do not have PS/2 ports anymore navigating through the SSD Magician prompts is virtually impossible on AMD based systems (source).