Call Kingston inexpensive SSD to lose data, call for firmware update

Since around last year manufacturers have released inexpensive SSDs of about 30 GB, which is an entry model, for startup drives that store operating systems, not for data storage, but as firmware updates are considered as possible data loss Was called.

Details are as below.
Kingston Releases New V100 Firmware to Address Data Loss Bug - AnandTech :: Your Source for Hardware Analysis and News

According to this article, it seems that there is a possibility of data loss in the Kingston entry model SSD "SSDNow V100" series.

Kingston says that data loss has occurred to a very small extent, but in order to prevent data loss, we urge all "SSDNow V100" series users to update their firmware.

This is "SSDNow V100" series. 64 GB, 128 GB, 256 GB models have been lineuped, also comes with a kit that can be replaced with the HDD etc of the PC. JMicron's "JMF 618" is adopted as a flash memory controller.


The target models are as follows, newFirmware can be downloaded from official websiteis.

SV 100 S 2/64 GZ, SV 100 S 2 D / 64 GZ, SV 100 S 2 N / 64 GZ
SV 100 S 2/128 GZ, SV 100 S 2 D / 128 GZ, SV 100 S 2 N / 128 GZ
SV 100 S 2/256 GZ, SV 100 S 2 N / 256 GZ, SV 100 S 2 N / 256 GZ
SV 100 S 2/64 G, SV 100 S 2 D / 64 G, SV 100 S 2 N / 64 G
SV 100 S 2/128 G, SV 100 S 2 D / 128 G, SV 100 S 2 N / 128 G
SV 100 S 2/256 G, SV 100 S 2 N / 256 G, SV 100 S 2 N / 256 G

Kingston Technology Company - SSDNow Product Information - SSDNow V100 Drive