A week ago Samsung acknowledged the existence of the read performance bug in the SSD 840 EVO and I just received a note that the fixed firmware is in validation process and is expected to be released to the public on October 15th. Unfortunately I don't have any further details about the bug or the fix at this point, or whether the update is coming to the 'vanilla' SSD 840 and OEM models, but I hope to get more details as the public release gets closer, so stay tuned.

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  • Mastermix Audio Media - Tuesday, October 28, 2014 - link

    Mac and Linux version posted:

    http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconduct...
  • scunmmonk - Wednesday, October 29, 2014 - link

    Yeah I used the DOS Version Samsung EVO 840 Performance Restore ISO as I am using a EVO 840 1 TB in my Macbook with native only MAC OSX. It was 15 Minutes or so Performance + update to the firmware!!
  • Guyp16 - Tuesday, November 4, 2014 - link

    Scunmonk how exactly did you do it? I'm running evo's in 2 macbook pro's and couldn't work out how to upload firmware to the drive which is running osx 10.9. How did you get it into a DOS set up to start with - I have downloaded the fixes to USB and a dvd and couldn't upload. Apologies for my lack of knowledge and thank you for any help!!!
  • Guyp16 - Wednesday, November 5, 2014 - link

    Scunmmonk how exactly did you do it? I'm running evo's in 2 macbook pro's and couldn't work out how to upload firmware to the drive which is running osx 10.9. How did you get it into a DOS set up to start with - I have downloaded the fixes to USB and a dvd and couldn't upload. Apologies for my lack of knowledge and thank you for any help!!!

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