ADATA Releases 5.0.7a Firmware For SandForce SSDs
Do you own an ADATA SX910, SX900, SP900, SP800, S511, S510 or S396 SSD? If you do, ADATA has released firmware version 5.0.7a that fixes and improves a number of items on these SandForce powered SSDs. The changelog that you get when you download the firmware states that version 5.0.7a fixes the following items:
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1 |
Fixed a power management condition where the device failed to respond to COMWAKE, which might have resulted in the SSD not responding without being reset by the host. |
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2 |
Fixed the normalized value calculation for SMART Attribute 9 (Power-On Hours) |
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3 |
Fixed a SATA error recovery sequence coming out of PS1. |
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4 |
Fixed an issue during SMART self-test extended that could cause an unexpected read error. |
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5 |
Fixed an issue that could have caused the read thresholds to be artificially low during read disturb operations. |
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6 |
Fixed an issue that could have caused the drive to be unresponsive based on a flash program failure. |
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Fixed a theoretically possible instance where an UECC on the flash media while processing unaligned write commands that cannot be corrected by the ECC engine and RAISETM causes invalid data to be returned. |
You can download the latest drivers here if you’d like to update your ADATA SSD to the latest firmware version. Please backup your data before doing the update to be on the safe side! We reviewed the ADATA XPG SX900 SSD last fall, so we just wanted to let our readers know!
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