{"video_id":"Vz4uDl0x2_I","title":"How to Update Sandforce SSD Firmware Guide Tutorial Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2012-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":207,"segments":[{"start_s":7.16,"end_s":13.12,"text":"so I've got some sandforce 3 drives or san Force 3 San Force 2281 drives that","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.04,"end_s":19.199,"text":"are going to need their firmwares updated I've got a Kronos deluxe from mushkin I've also got a couple of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.72,"end_s":23.199,"text":"wildfires the other Wildfire is plugged into a SATA cable hanging off the back","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":20.76,"end_s":26.359,"text":"of this machine and uh so basically I want to switch from having two test","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":24.519,"end_s":31.039,"text":"benches to three test benches so I'll have instead of an AMD and Intel I 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allowed to do that okay well either way my Patriot","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":181.4,"end_s":187.4,"text":"ones are updated and I will update the muskin one after and I think I've","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":185.64,"end_s":191.159,"text":"covered pretty much everything I wanted to say so thank you for checking out my","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":188.959,"end_s":197.04,"text":"little video on how to update the firmware of your SATA 3 sandforce SSD","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":195.239,"end_s":201.64,"text":"drive don't forget to subscribe T tchp from unboxings reviews tutorials and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":199.72,"end_s":207.319,"text":"completely random videos too sometimes but not this one this was a tutorial in","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":203.84,"end_s":207.319,"text":"case you didn't notice","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"so I've got some sandforce 3 drives or san Force 3 San Force 2281 drives that are going to need their firmwares updated I've got a Kronos deluxe from mushkin I've also got a couple of wildfires the other Wildfire is plugged into a SATA cable hanging off the back of this machine and uh so basically I want to switch from having two test benches to three test benches so I'll have instead of an AMD and Intel I want to have a 2011 and 1150 5 and an am3 plus so that I can easily and quickly compare anything on any of the major platforms without swapping CPU coolers etc etc etc so um now that they finally fixed the stability issues that people were having with some blue screens and whatnot with uh the sound Force SATA 3 drives I'm going to go ahead I'm going to update these three drives and then I'm going to uh well get my test benches set up so I figured I might as well do a video about how to update the firmware on your SST so in this case I downloaded The Patriot the updator so I obviously got that one off the Patriot website you want to run it as an administrator if you're using Windows 7 or Windows Vista it scans for drives you go ahead you select your drive you update the firmware this all comes in in a single pack so it comes with the firmware as well as the release notes and the updater so you just click open Automatic restart may occur after this operation etc etc etc so there's a few other things that you have to factor in um I tried this on an AMD chipset this is a modern AMD chipset 99 nfx board and this errored out after about half a second so what I had to do was I tried switching to HCI mode that didn't help uh so I moved it over to an Intel board this is a p-55 board and now it's working with no issue so only certain chipsets are going to be able to update the firmwares correctly you do want to be in ahci mode so that is a factor as well and other than that I can't really think of anything oh look at that it's complete already hey here's something interesting why don't we find out together if I can update a mushin Kronos using the Patriot utility and the Patriot firmware because they are using the same flash these are all toggle chip drives with 2281 controller so as far as the actual Hardware is concerned they are basically identical so let's see if the mushen drive will allow me to update it I might have to grab the rescan for drives I might have to grab the updater from the mushin site instead scanning for drives please wait oh look at this okay update firmware okay okay huh look at that oh no it didn't work yeah okay yep so it's saying you know basically no you're not allowed to do that okay well either way my Patriot ones are updated and I will update the muskin one after and I think I've covered pretty much everything I wanted to say so thank you for checking out my little video on how to update the firmware of your SATA 3 sandforce SSD drive don't forget to subscribe T tchp from unboxings reviews tutorials and completely random videos too sometimes but not this one this was a 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