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