HDD GURU FORUMS

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

What controller?

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.

PC3K Flash has possibility to save FW for some controllers.

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?

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.

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

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

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.