These are not good times for poor ol' Samsung. Or perhaps your SSD.
Samsung has rapidly released a firmware update for its troubled 990 Pro premium PCIe 4.0 SSD. The news comes just a week afterIf that seems reasonably timely, problems with more than one Samsung drive have proliferated into something of a palaver in recent weeks. As we reported previously, somedrives seem to be suffering from rapid drive health degradation as reported by Samsung's own Magician SSD tool.
Initially, owners reported that Samsung was refusing to process returns, but as reports of the problem multiplied Samsung began to recognise the issue was real and began replacing drives. We also note fromhere that it's probably a good idea to shut down your PC during the update process, especially if your 990 Pro is a boot drive.
The drive itself will not reboot unless fully powered down, which a mere reboot of the PC won't achieve, and thus will be left unresponsive if the new firmware, version 1B2QJXD7, is applied without a full power down, leading to ye olde blue screens and PCs falling over. There is also the issue that, while the firmware fix might put a stop to the aforementioned drive degradation, it doesn't reverse it. That means if your drive has been suffering the damage has already been done.due to a freak firmware issue, forcing Samsung to roll out a new firmware for that drive.
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