Update Your NVMe Firmware

[Brent_Justice]

Beyond security updates, bug fixes, wear leveling optimization, and controller or protocol optimizations, firmware updates can also just flat-out improve performance in some areas. For example, I've had this Teamgroup 4TB MP34 SSD on my primary system, as my primary drive for about 9 months now, and just now compared the firmware on it with what is the latest available, and found it could be updated to a newer version. I did a comparison test before, and after, and you can see the results below, I pretty much got random read/write improvements across the board. Not bad, for just a firmware update. It is recommended to keep your NVMe firmware up to date.

Firmware VB421D65 on the left, Firmware VB441D65 on the right

 

[Grimlakin]

I do love the Samsung magician software for auto notifying me of software and firmware updates to my NVME drive.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Good to know and not something I've done too many times, maybe once or twice and so long ago that I can't remember.