Samsung 980 PRO 2 TB firmware update needed to avoid drive dying.

[guemi]

As most of you might have read, Samsung 980 PRO 2 TB SSD's running firmware 3B2QGXA7 are in high chance of drive dying. Read more here:

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/samsung-980-pro-ssd-failures-firmware-update


I happen to be one of the unlucky ones that have a round of these in my system in TrueNAS Scale.

Samsung Magician Software only applies to Windows for consumer drives - does anyone know (Is it possible) to update the drives firmware without installing windows?

I doubt it's possible to do from TrueNAS, but is there any bootable media that can do it?

Or do I have to schedule a reinstall to just update drive software, and then reinstall TrueNAS to run?

Luckily TrueNAS importing / exporting configuration and ZFS importing pools is nothing short of god tier, so it's possible, but annoying downtime.

 

[guemi]

Tool & Software Download | Samsung Semiconductor Global

Download various software related to your product, including Samsung Magician, designed for use with Samsung's memory products, and find related information.

semiconductor.samsung.com

Looks like the actual firmware you can download is bootable, I mounted the ISO and it has grub in it. I'll try this tomorrow and report back for the rest of you.

 

[guemi]

Updating firmware from ISO worked just fine.