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Likely. It would be very inconvenient, but I could pull it off on my home's desktop computer. Now consider doing this at scale, in a datacenter, or just some office that has a lot of these drives. Ouch.
It also raises concerns about trust. What if I don't trust proprietary Windows and don't want to run it? It can potentially compromise my SSD during the update.
does that firmware update come with any changelog? I have the same drive for my database dev work and I somehow feel uneasy to update it without really knowing what will change, will my specific workload improve or tank due to some other edge case they might have solved or broken? I mean, the drive works fine, will it work even better? for what workloads exactly? All I could find was someone mentioning it works bette…
This is some insanity that shouldn't be needed, when fwupd[0] exists. Samsung is to blame for this. [0]: https://fwupd.org/
A pain Linux users know all too well. https://robots.org.uk/ToshibaX30X40FirmwareUpdate
In hindsight, I found out that Satechi is now largely reselling cheap Chinese reference designs that can be had from AliExpress from 10-30 Euro/USD, repackaged in different casing [1]. Since they don't actually seem to control the firmware, they are just reshipping half-working Realtek firmware update utilities.
[1] https://overengineer.dev/blog/2021/04/25/usb-c-hub-madness.h...
Is there any significant benefit of updating firmware? Intuitively it seems like the risk/reward is very skewed towards not doing it. I've never really updated the firmware on any component other than routers or motherboard/bios.
It looks like the author was mining a particular sort of cryptocurrency which needs a lot of drive space. I guess he was trying to squeeze as much performance out of his SSDs as possible. For most applications I can't see why you'd really need to update your SSD firmware, unless the manufacturer messed up their wear-levelling or something like that in the release firmware.
This is unfortunate. Can't do simple things easily, or at all, unless you boot windows. My mouse looked like Christmas tree until I installed some electron app on windows. There has to be a better way without the need to hack everything
Reminds me when about ten years ago, working in an all-Linux company there was an issue with some Lenovo docking stations. I don't recall anymore what the issue was exactly, just that something wouldn't work properly when you plugged in a laptop with Linux. The problem was solved by a firmware upgrade, but upgrading the docking station firmware was possible only from Windows. So there was this one poor person in IT w…
> No supported SSD detected for Firmware Update
It also doesn't work if you flash the ISO and boot "properly" as Samsung expects you to do.
Reminds me when about ten years ago, working in an all-Linux company there was an issue with some Lenovo docking stations. I don't recall anymore what the issue was exactly, just that something wouldn't work properly when you plugged in a laptop with Linux. The problem was solved by a firmware upgrade, but upgrading the docking station firmware was possible only from Windows. So there was this one poor person in IT w…
edit: Windows PE won't do .msi, but .exe should work: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufactur...
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I had run into the same problem with Kingston - no firmware on the web, update tool only for Windows. Had to ask local distributor to contact Kingston and ask for firmware. I was lucky to get it, but never bought another Kingston drive. I don't understand how datacenter SSD manufacturer can so blatantly ignore Linux.
Would it work to update the firmware under Windows and then switch back to Linux?
Those who know of such HDD/SSD vendors (esp. those supporting lvfs) please chime in.