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Intel Pulls SSD Firmware Day After Release

Posted by timothy on from the early-bird-gets-the-ream dept.

CWmike writes "Intel has pulled a firmware upgrade it released on Monday for its X25-M consumer solid-state drives after users complained that the software caused crashes. The company on Monday made available a software package called SSD Toolbox to monitor and manage the performance and health of X25-M SSDs on systems running Windows 7. The package included a firmware upgrade and software called SSD Optimizer that included diagnostic tools to help keep the Intel SSD running at high performance. 'We have been contacted by users with issues with the 34-nanometer Intel SSD firmware upgrade and are investigating. We take all sightings and issues seriously and are working toward resolution. We have temporarily taken down the firmware link while we investigate,' an Intel spokesman said in an e-mail. The spokesman declined to comment on when the company would issue updated firmware."

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  1. Re:Development process is flawed by adisakp · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't know any major problems with the Intel G1 SSD firmware but this is the second big issue with the G2 firmware. When the G2 drives first shipped, a bug in the firmware made it so if you changed the password, you could lose all your data.

  2. Re:This is off-topic and I appologize... by allknowingfrog · · Score: 1, Informative

    I'm not approaching karma like a high-score or anything, I'm just offended that someone is allowed to label several of my comments "troll" simply because they don't like me.

  3. Not just Intel by MattRog · · Score: 4, Informative

    Crucial's M225 (I own the 128GB version) 1711 firmware had significant bugs and was quickly yanked. In order to upgrade to the latest 1819 you have to downgrade back to 1571.

    http://www.crucial.com/support/firmware.aspx

    Seems as if most consumer SSD products are still a bit in the "beta" stage.

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  4. Re:Development process is flawed by Dragonslicer · · Score: 3, Informative

    How do you define "enough competition"? Maybe I'm just ignorant about the SSD market, but Newegg lists 8 manufacturers with more models of SSD drives than Intel, with Patriot, Kingston, and Corsair probably being the most well-known companies. That would seem to indicate that there's quite a bit of competition in the SSD market.

  5. Re:Development process is flawed by chizu · · Score: 3, Informative

    There was an issue with early Intel X25-M G1 SSDs. They were non-bootable with Apple MacBooks. I have one and it was hell figuring out why it didn't work in a MacBook. It's been great in a ThinkPad.

  6. Re:This is off-topic and I appologize... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    He's just being a jerk. In Unix-like systems, /dev/null is a "null file" and disregards any data written to it.