Feb 14, 2023 12:00:00

An update to solve the ``too short life problem'' of Samsung SSD will be released

Samsung's SSD '

990 PRO ', which appeared in December 2022, has been attracting attention as an SSD that operates at high speed, but users who actually used it said that the life expectancy was reduced by about half in a short period of time. have been reported many times. It has become clear that Samsung has released a fix update for the 990 PRO's lifespan degradation problem.

Gelöst: Samsung 990 Pro SSD Probleme zum Gesamtzustand - Samsung Community
https://eu.community.samsung.com/t5/notebooks-ssd-it/samsung-990-pro-ssd-probleme-zum-gesamtzustand/td-p/6791489

Samsung 990 Pro Firmware Update Addresses Failing SSD Health | Tom's Hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/samsung-990-pro-firmware-update-released-ssd-health

990 PRO is an M.2 standard SSD compatible with PCIe Gen 4, and it is appealing that high-speed transfer with a maximum read speed of 7450 MB / s and a maximum write speed of 6900 MB / s is possible. For this reason, it attracted a lot of attention from users who wanted storage speed, but from the users who actually used it, ``The remaining life span was 94% in a few days after purchase'' and ``It has been two weeks since the start of use. The remaining life is 96%, and it is decreasing by 2% every week.' Many complaints have been received.

A situation occurs in which the life of Samsung's high-speed SSD '990 PRO' shrinks by 46% in a short period of time - GIGAZINE

The remaining lifespan of SSDs that have appeared in recent years is generally reduced by ``decreasing by a few percent after several years of continuous use'', so the 990 PRO, whose remaining lifespan is visibly reduced after a few days of use, It was pointed out that there was some kind of problem.

On Samsung's official forum, a discussion was held on the above-mentioned lifespan deterioration problem, but on February 13, 2023, a Samsung moderator participated in the discussion and said, ``The rapid deterioration of lifespan is a firmware problem. It was due to' 'On February 13, 2023, we released a firmware update to fix the problem' and declared the problem fixed.

Official documentation for the firmware update has not been released, but according to Samsung moderators, the update can be applied via Samsung's SSD management application 'Samsung Magician'. Samsung Magician can be downloaded from the link below.

Samsung Magician Download | Samsung Semiconductor Japan
https://semiconductor.samsung.com/jp/consumer-storage/support/tools/

Also, according to the moderator, although the application of the update will solve the problem of life deterioration, the 'SMART' information, which records the health status of the SSD, will not be reset. For this reason, it seems that the remaining life when viewed from the storage health status confirmation application will not return to the original.