Samsung 840 Pro SSD Crashing

[Digimer]

On 02/19/2013 08:23 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On a completely separate note: I'll mention that I had lots of
> fun problems with my Crucial SSD drive which needed new
> firmware to fix.
>
> The most ironic being a bug in the firmware for SMART
> support that made it start failing after some specific
> number of hours of operation (if they hadn't tried to
> support SMART diagnostics, it would have worked
> perfectly :-).
>
> So, if you haven't already, you might want to check
> for new firmware updates for the Samsung SSD.

Thanks for the note. I did check the firmware and other health using the 
samsung tools (I installed a temp Win7 to make sure there were no issues 
playing with the firmware in linux... thanks samsung for requiring that!).

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