This will improve the overall performance, especially the read speed numbers. This mode can make use of 1GB of your system’s DRAM as cache for hot data or frequently-accessed data. What Samsung Magician offers through its RAPID mode makes it worth it even more.
#Samsung ssd utility software update#
And the Dell updater works with a large number of RAID controllers, while the drive manufacturer usually tells you to "hook the drive up to a motherboard SATA port" and update the drive under Windows.Optimization and diagnostics are just the tip of the iceberg. OTOH, some system manufacturers (for example, Dell) do a better job of keeping drive firmware up-to-date than the drive manufacturer does for the generic drive. It's pretty certain that the fix is going to end up in the generic firmware (if it is ever updated) at some future date, unless it is for an obscure interaction between the drive and a peculiar controller. Even taking them at their word (it is more likely they're doing this to increase their profits, not reliability), they don't get the source for the firmware - the drive manufacturer gets told about a problem and fixes it. At least the manufacturers don't usually insist on completely hiding who made the drive, these days.Īll of the system manufacturers will tell you their drives are "better" because they've found and fixed problems with the generic firmware. Back then it was "Apple Macintosh" SCSI, "DEC" SCSI, or "PC SCSI". I've been ranting about this for nearly 3 decades now. For example, here is a different model of Samsung SSD, noted as "NetApp firmware" (NA00) which also doesn't say NetApp on the label (the "NA" on the label is a different font and shade, so it wasn't put there by Samsung).Ĭlick to expand.I really wish that manufacturers (both drive and system) would stop doing this. If this was a flash accelerator drive, there may have only been a few per system and it may not have been worth either NetApp's or Samsung's effort to brand them. I've seen HGST HDDs (not SSDs) with "NetApp P/N xxxx" printed on the label, but those came out of arrays where there were hundreds of those drives in a system. This is just a guess, as I'm not familiar with NetApp products, but I'd guess that this is for an earlier NetApp system (flash-accelerated, as opposed to all-flash). I've located a bunch of 843T's labeled NS00 on eBay, so your drive is either an earlier one or one that someone "converted" to a NetApp drive (the NetApp Mars OS update installer includes a "storage disk updatefirmware" utility which could possibly be coerced to flash non-NetApp drives). For example, here is a different model of Samsung SSD, noted as "NetApp firmware" (NA00) which also doesn't say NetApp on the label (the "NA" on the label is a different font and shade, so it wasn't put there by Samsung). Could some sort of 3rd party / open-source firmware have been installed (and if so, could this void the warranty)?Ĭlick to expand.This is just a guess, as I'm not familiar with NetApp products, but I'd guess that this is for an earlier NetApp system (flash-accelerated, as opposed to all-flash). Meanwhile, the Samsung Magician DC V1 documentation explicitly states that the SM843T firmware cannot be updated.ĭoes anybody know what the deal is here / what firmware NS00 is? The firmware installed on every OEM Enterprise Samsung SSD I've used has always been the firmware specified on the label. I tried to inspect the SSD with Samsung Magician DC V1 (the enterprise / Linux command line version of Samsung Magician which supports the SM843T), and it doesn't recognize the SSD.Ī firmware version of DXM87W3Q is specified on the SSD label, however, hdparm reports a firmware version of NS00.
However, the SMART info shows almost 15,000 power_on_hours, and host reads / writes are completely omitted (every Samsung SSD I've ever used has included this info).
The SSD was sold as brand new, and came sealed in an antistatic bag. I purchased a Samsung SM843T SSD, and there are a few things that seem a bit off with it.
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