Intel Confirms Bricked SSD Bug, Starts Working on a Fix
Posted 11/06/09 at 11:15:04 AM by Paul Lilly
Late last month, several owners of Intel's X25-M G2 solid state drives cried foul when a firmware update promising a 40 percent performance boost ended up bricking their drives instead. Oops! That marked the latest in a what's becoming a string of problems plaguing the 34nm SSDs, and once again, Intel says a fix is on the way.
"Intel has replicated the issue on 34nm SSDs -- X25-M -- and is working a fix," wrote Alan Frost of Intel's NAND Solutions Group. "Intel is pursuing the resolution of this as a high priority. Intel is seeking direct feedback on this issue from members of the [Intel Support Community]... asking them to send their drives directly to Intel to expedite the analysis of the issues. This action will enable us to more quickly generate a resolution for this issue."
Frost added that there have been no reports of related issues by users who were able to successfully upgrade to the 02ha firmware via the firmware upgrade tool, which would suggest the problem isn't the firmware itself, but a bug in the loader software.
No no no, forget the article
Submitted by ChuvelxD on Fri, 11/06/2009 - 11:23am
Forget the article, that picture is
"PRICELESS"! XD
Oh my god I said the EXACT
Submitted by DBsantos77 on Fri, 11/06/2009 - 6:52pm
Oh my god I said the EXACT same thing. So funny!
-Santos
First they said there was
Submitted by TechJunkie on Fri, 11/06/2009 - 9:10am
First they said there was nothing wrong with thier drives. Then they said yeah, there's a firmware problem, but it only affects x percent. Now they say OH, it's got to be a bug in the loader sofware. Next they will say...wait!!! it's not our drives! It's because your running an AMD processor on an Nvidia mobo!....
well of course, it's dirty
Submitted by Sina on Fri, 11/06/2009 - 3:04pm
well of course, it's dirty business, you know that.
I think intel needs a bath.
Submitted by TechJunkie on Fri, 11/06/2009 - 3:47pm
I think intel needs a bath.
nvidia & microsoft too.
Submitted by Sina on Sat, 11/07/2009 - 3:40pm
nvidia & microsoft too.
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