Your laptop’s storage is one thing you don’t usually take into consideration. It’s in there, someplace, nebulously holding on to extra bits of knowledge than your mind might deal with in a dozen lifetimes. And it’s both working or it isn’t — it’s not as if it wants fixed efficiency tuning, like, say, GPU drivers. However the newest firmware replace for the Samsung’s in style household of solid-state drives is, certainly, important, particularly when you’ve got one specific high-end mannequin.
Based on Puget Programs, the 2TB model of the Samsung 980 Professional drive — a favourite amongst efficiency fans, and a PCWorld Editor’s Alternative — is affected by a problem that all of the sudden locks the drive into read-only mode. If it occurs to be the one drive in your system, or the one holding your OS, your laptop is (in technical phrases) screwed. At that time the one repair is a whole reinstallation, at which era the underlying error nonetheless hasn’t been addressed.
Luckily the most recent firmware replace for the drive fixes the difficulty. Whereas different Samsung drives (even totally different capacities of the 980 Professional) don’t appear to be affected, it is likely to be a good suggestion to replace to the most recent firmware anyway. Up to date SSD firmware may be discovered within the Samsung Magician program, and shortly utilized with a obtain and system reboot.
