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#1 | New Firmware for Samsung 840 / 840 Pro (Mar' 2014) datum

Mon Mar 10, 2014 8:27 am (Last edited: Mon Mar 10, 2014 8:34 am)

New Samsung 840 / 840 Pro Firmware was released today. (Sunday, March 9th 2014)

840: DXT09B0Q

840 Pro: DXM06B0Q

Update Notes: Improved compatibility with ultra-slim and mobile PCs.

Download link: http://www.samsung.com/global/business/s.../downloads.html

Z77A-GD65 | Xeon E3-1230 v2 | 4x4GB Samsung DDR3-1600 | Samsung 840 Pro 128GB | PNY GeForce GTX 680

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#2 | RE: New Samsung 840 / 840 Pro (Mar' 2014) datum

Mon Mar 10, 2014 8:40 am

Hello garikfox,

welcome at Win-RAID.com and thanks for your info!
I am glad, that you are now a member of my Forum.

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#3 | RE: New Samsung 840 / 840 Pro (Mar' 2014) datum

Mon Mar 10, 2014 8:43 am

Hello Fernando, Thank's

Z77A-GD65 | Xeon E3-1230 v2 | 4x4GB Samsung DDR3-1600 | Samsung 840 Pro 128GB | PNY GeForce GTX 680

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#4 | RE: New Samsung 840 / 840 Pro (Mar' 2014) datum

Tue Mar 11, 2014 10:08 am

Fernando,
Garifox,
I detected a bug with this New Samsun 840 PRO Firmware version: authentication fails for any SSD connected on any Z77 SATA 6G port, and success for SSD connected on non Z77 SATA 6G port (i.e. on Marvell SATA 6 G port):
Magician 4.3 report:

Can you confirm you get the same problem ?

ASUS Sabertooth X99/USB 3.1, W10 x64 21H2 NVMe i750, BIOS v4101, CPU Intel i7 5930K, 32GB DDR4, Asus GTX 1660TI 6GB DDR6
ASUS PRIME Z390M-Plus W11 x64 21H2 22000.194 NVMe 970 , BIOS v3004, 16GB DDR4, CPUs: Intel i3-8100 (4 cores) +UHD 630, i5-9400F (6 cores) +GTX 980.

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#5 | RE: New Samsung 840 / 840 Pro (Mar' 2014) datum

Tue Mar 11, 2014 11:01 am

Zitat von 100PIER im Beitrag #4
Can you confirm you get the same problem ?

No, everything is fine here.
This is what I get (SSD is connected with an Intel SATA3 port):

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#6 | RE: New Samsung 840 / 840 Pro (Mar' 2014) datum

Wed Mar 12, 2014 1:53 pm

Hi,

are there any performance improvements when upgrading to new firmware? I'm running 2 840 PRO 512gb in Raid0... Should i upgrade or not?

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#7 | RE: New Samsung 840 / 840 Pro (Mar' 2014) datum

Wed Mar 12, 2014 2:06 pm

@ armin666:
Welcome at Win-RAID Forum!

Zitat von armin666 im Beitrag #6
are there any performance improvements when upgrading to new firmware?

I haven't recognized any performance improvements.
This is what Samsung had written regarding the Changelog: "Improved compatibility with ultra-slim and mobile PCs."
So if you neither have an ultra-slim nor a mobile PC, you may not need to flash the new Firmware. On the other hand the update seems to be safe and may give you some undocumented benefits.

Regards
Fernando

My current System:
MB: ASRock X570 Pro4, CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600, System Drive: 500 GB Samsung 980 Pro, Graphics: Sapphire Radeon RX570, OS: Win10 x64 Pro
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#8 | RE: New Samsung 840 / 840 Pro (Mar' 2014) datum

Thu Mar 13, 2014 5:53 pm

any performance degration?
some folks are posting about dropping 4K read performance ..

http://nl.hardware.info/usersystemen/198...ximus-6-formula

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#9 | RE: New Samsung 840 / 840 Pro (Mar' 2014) datum

Thu Mar 13, 2014 6:14 pm

Zitat von jeroompje im Beitrag #8
any performance degration?
some folks are posting about dropping 4K read performance ..

I cannot confirm these reports.
Here are my benchmark results using the same Samsung 840 PRO SSD with different Firmware versions (left pic: old FW DXM05B0Q, right pic: new FW DXM06B0Q):

My current System:
MB: ASRock X570 Pro4, CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600, System Drive: 500 GB Samsung 980 Pro, Graphics: Sapphire Radeon RX570, OS: Win10 x64 Pro
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#10 | RE: New Samsung 840 / 840 Pro (Mar' 2014) datum

Thu Mar 13, 2014 7:37 pm

I get 2 problems after upgrade the firmware 840 PRO 256 GB from DXM05B0Q to DXM06B0Q:

1) The MAGICIAN 4.3 "authentification" option now fails on all SSD connected on Z77 ports !

2) The feature "DevSleep" disappeared with this new firmware.

However i observed no performance degradation or improvment..

ASUS Sabertooth X99/USB 3.1, W10 x64 21H2 NVMe i750, BIOS v4101, CPU Intel i7 5930K, 32GB DDR4, Asus GTX 1660TI 6GB DDR6
ASUS PRIME Z390M-Plus W11 x64 21H2 22000.194 NVMe 970 , BIOS v3004, 16GB DDR4, CPUs: Intel i3-8100 (4 cores) +UHD 630, i5-9400F (6 cores) +GTX 980.

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