Samsung SSD Firmware Warning - Re: Magician Downloads

Kbird said:

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UPDATED Feb.6th 2018
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I am seeing reports on the Samsung Forums that the new 4Bxxxxx Firmware is not working
for everyone or only works for a few days and then the problems come back ,
so proceed with caution.

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Thanks for this update Kbird, I have never updated the bios for my 960 Pro, still on older one 2xxx :) No intentions of upgrading at this time either.

Sorry for being lazy.

I have 960 EVO on firmware 2xxxx.

Is it okay / recommended for me to update firmware?

I lost touch with what is okay and what is still dicey.

Caledon Ken said:

Sorry for being lazy.

I have 960 EVO on firmware 2xxxx.

Is it okay / recommended for me to update firmware?

I lost touch with what is okay and what is still dicey.

I have same one and not going to flash it unless I'm sure of any gains with new BIOS.

I agree with Mike, I have the Pro on 2xxxx and have no intentions of updating my firmware either. :) Choice is of course the user.

Thanks Kbird, CountMike and OldMike65.

I'll set a reminder to investigate this again in another month.

Ken

Kbird said:

There is no benefit at this point so I would not risk it .....some users with the Pro are still having issues with their Drives on 4xxxx. but on a whole it seems better.

My Speed issues were because I set the Source Tuner Clock in the Bios manually to the specified Speed instead of leaving it on Auto , Magician 5.2 says it is faster now than i ever saw it but I am not 100% convinced it is right since AS SSD Bench doesn't agree with the Speed in 5.2

5.2 won't even tell me what Bios my EVO needs upgrading too , just says I need an update , so I won't be doing it while there are questions on the 3.xxx and 4.xxx bios's as all is well currently.

KB.

Can you explain some more about "Source Tuner Clock in the Bios" ?

Oh, that looks like BCLK multiplier/devider, we don't have that on Ryzen platform.