@daandi
The OEM SSDs such as 951 do not support firmware update (Magician does ignore them, no ISO file available).
Only the Consumers SSDs such as 950 PRO, 960 PRO/EVO families are firmware upgradable.
However I don't recommend to go to 3xx frmware versions at the moment, they are buggy.
The best solution is to keep the 2xx and wait for Samsung to fix the problems.
Samsung Forum community is very upset about Samsung lack of communication on this severe issue.

@100PIER thank you for your response, but I am confused about it in the context of your response related to this thread - as this thread specifically is about an approach to update the SM951 anyways and some seem to claim they succeeded. (So I am trying to find pointers from those)
I do not have the choice to keep 2xx as I am on a 3xxx - but on one that seems to have the FUA issue.

@daandi
My SM951 512GB AHCI firmware is BXW2500Q.
I have never succeed to update it with the different tools referenced into this subforum.

Got a SM951 256GB arrived today, Ebay pictures showed it was a MZVPV256HDGL-00000 but its a MZVPV256HDGL-000H1, fine... it had BXW74H0Q firmware on it, i updated to BXW75H0Q & its fine. speeds are proper for the NVMe model. Using Samsung latest NVMe driver.

Zitat von SkOrPn im Beitrag #52

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Is SM951 the only OEM drive that we can flash firmware too? What about the SM961?

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SM961 gets updates but only through their OEM counterparts (HP, Dell, Lenovo etc) via exe files. I believe these firmware flashes will work, but actually having the guts to try it is another story altogether. I know Lenovo has an update but not sure if there is any value to it. Anyway, I do not have any issues with my SM961 so I will leave it at that until someone else says otherwise. Lol

The one I bought is off Amazon, and unless the picture on Amazon wasn't accurate it wasn't branded by any OEM.

Any links to the the download pages for those OEM's?

Oh BTW would you or someone know if the SM961 512GB has chips on both top and bottom or just top? I'm planning to put a heat spreader on mine but the head spreader suggests use only on single sided M.2's.

SM961 has all chips only on top PCB.

Regards

Zitat von DarkLogix im Beitrag #67

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The one I bought is off Amazon, and unless the picture on Amazon wasn't accurate it wasn't branded by any OEM.
Any links to the the download pages for those OEM's?
Oh BTW would you or someone know if the SM961 512GB has chips on both top and bottom or just top? I'm planning to put a heat spreader on mine but the head spreader suggests use only on single sided M.2's.

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How to do it? After my built-in driver is lost after updating Windows 10 I have one answer. A convenient option is a USB external optical drive. This is not the answer many of I were hoping to hear, but its an option to consider (and will cost about $25). So I bought Dell DW316 slim external DVD R/W drive, about the characteristics here https://www.bestadvisor.com/best-external-cddvd-drives You can do back up, create a virtual image, update Windows and believe that the process will become more stable and will not cause as many bugs

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Zitat von DarkLogix im Beitrag #67

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The one I bought is off Amazon, and unless the picture on Amazon wasn't accurate it wasn't branded by any OEM.
Any links to the the download pages for those OEM's?
Oh BTW would you or someone know if the SM961 512GB has chips on both top and bottom or just top? I'm planning to put a heat spreader on mine but the head spreader suggests use only on single sided M.2's.

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Mine doesn't have a logo either, and is branded Samsung, but the firmware is a HP firmware I think (CXZ73H0Q).

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Zitat von MR im Beitrag #68

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SM961 has all chips only on top PCB.

Regards

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Zitat von DarkLogix im Beitrag #71

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Zitat von SkOrPn im Beitrag #69

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Zitat von DarkLogix im Beitrag #67

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The one I bought is off Amazon, and unless the picture on Amazon wasn't accurate it wasn't branded by any OEM.
Any links to the the download pages for those OEM's?
Oh BTW would you or someone know if the SM961 512GB has chips on both top and bottom or just top? I'm planning to put a heat spreader on mine but the head spreader suggests use only on single sided M.2's.

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Mine doesn't have a logo either, and is branded Samsung, but the firmware is a HP firmware I think (CXZ73H0Q).

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How do I view the NVMe Firmware ver? The system is at home so I can't check till tonight.

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So I have the board booting with the SM961, I'll likely get a 4x to M.2 adapter so that I can have a full 4 lanes to it.

I tried the lenovo Firmware updater but it wouldn't update the drive. I googled the firmware but came up dry.

@DarkLogix
SM961 as well SM951 are not firmware upgradable devices. They are OEM products.
Samsung Magician tool does ignore the OEM devices.
Even the .iso file method will never be offered on Samsung site.
Only pure Consumer SSD devices are firmware updatable eitheir by Magician or eventually by .iso file (USB Linux bootable).
About 4x to M.2 adapter PCIe V3.0 there are a lot of solutions. (ASUS, DT-120 Lycom, ECM20 Sylverstone, Syntech, KRYO, etc..)
I do recommend KRYO M.2 with its radiator.