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How to Save SSD Firmaware

December 11th, 2013, 14:41

Hi guys any of you have experience in SSD?

I have here for testing an:
HD 2.5" SSD 512GB SATA 3 PLEXTOR PRO PX-512M5-PRO / CACHE 768MB / LEC 540MB/s / ESC 470

I would like to know how to save FW from this SSD drives.

Any way? tools?

Thanks for your help in advanced

Re: How to Save SSD Firmaware

December 11th, 2013, 15:02

What controller?

Re: How to Save SSD Firmaware

December 13th, 2013, 13:06

arvika wrote:What controller?


I speak generally, i do not speak about 1 exactly SSD.
Is there any way to get FW from diferent SSDs?

Thanks in advanced.

Re: How to Save SSD Firmaware

December 13th, 2013, 19:42

PC3K Flash has possibility to save FW for some controllers.

Re: How to Save SSD Firmaware

October 6th, 2016, 4:55

arvika wrote:PC3K Flash has possibility to save FW for some controllers.


Any other way to save FW on SSD?
maybe with an TTL to serial adapter and any command?

Re: How to Save SSD Firmaware

October 10th, 2016, 11:27

I don't work on SSD and i don't know how to work on them for data recovery, but i think you can backup FW if it's stored into SPI memory by using an eprom programmer.

Re: How to Save SSD Firmaware

October 10th, 2016, 15:47

AIUI the firmware is stored in several places including the NAND array, not just SPI flash.

Re: How to Save SSD Firmaware

October 10th, 2016, 16:39

fzabkar wrote:AIUI the firmware is stored in several places including the NAND array, not just SPI flash.


Ohh i see, thanks Frank. As i said, i don't know much about SSD :(

Re: How to Save SSD Firmaware

December 23rd, 2016, 10:03

While a solid majority of firmware updates are non-destructive and thus won't wipe your data with a reformat, the first step before performing any firmware update should still be to backup important data on your drive. Errors and faults can happen that may render your data inaccessible. Sometimes, updates are destructive, but in those cases users will be warned.
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