New SamSung 960 Firmware Update Might Cause Freezes & Perf Issues
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Agent-A01
I have no issues with mine on latest update. 960 Pro 1TB
@Hilbert Hagedoorn
The link to samsung forums is not correct, maybe you are referring to this one?
https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/Memory-Storage/960-pro-firmware-3B6QCXP7-its-a-crap/m-p/217627/highlight/true#M873
Burgurne
I just got a new 500Gbyte 960 EVO 2 days ago, and it allready has firmware 3B7QCXE7 installed, and it works just fine 🙂
But how can this new firmware allready be on my drive, if it was released only some days ago? I assume my drive is produced way before that!
LesserHellspawn
Well, will update now. If I don't report back, my OS drive is shot.
sayem57
I have EVO 960 250gb. Updated for few days and so far no problem.
LesserHellspawn
Back online, time to watch it.
JamesSneed
I have a 960 pro and evo on this rig and I uninstalled the magician software for this reason. I see no reason to upgrade firmware on these drives. This update is supposed to add E-drive functionality for those using bitlocker so you get hardware encryption. If you aren't going to use that feature seems to me no point in risking the update.
bishi
Oh shit, I wondered what had been up with my machine. It had started microstuttering during asset streaming in Smite and it was driving me crazy. Only since I updated the SSD driver. Every other game is find and benchmarks are good but something was definitely up. Thanks for the post!
bishi
Also I really don't recommend using the microsoft driver unless you want your performance to plummet
Burgurne
I have now tried to compare ms driver vs Samsung newest NVMe driver ... and yes, samsung driver is indeed the fastest. Not in the high "SEQ read", but in 4K and 4K 32t especially in the write section (used Crystal disk Mark x64).
I also recommend to use Samsungs driver over MS driver. I have not testet other versions of Samsung driver, only the newest one, so I don't know if some older driver is better than the newest one?
bishi
All the Samsung drivers since release have performed very similarly so any should be okay. MS driver has always been far behind.
Agonist
No issues here either with my 960 Evo 250GB.
Maybe people are using MS driver and not samsung driver.
Im running Samsung driver and I have no speed issues, no lock ups, and it still flies. Used for my OS drive.
Krakkan
My 960 EVO 250GB is running 3B7QCXE7 with no issues at all, also got Samsungs NVMe driver (2.3) installed.
Edit: I have made a updated response and some Benchmarks in the thread https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/samsung-960-evo-firmware-update-3b7qcxe7-and-2-3-nvme-drivers.417859/page-2#post-5496754
Præses
My firmware is up to date and I've been running v2.3 for a couple of weeks without any issues.
JamesSneed
I assume you are looking at the SSD device driver. Look in the device manager for storage controllers. Under that you should see the Samsung NVMe controller. This is what the Samsung driver installs.
ATOJAR
Currently running Samsung NVM Express Driver v2.3 with Samsung Magician v5.1.
However Samsung Magician reports my 500GB 960 Pro having the latest 2B6QCXP7 firmware installed!
screwtech02
Tried to install the "Samsung" driver, Windows driver from 2006 still showing in device manager.......
Agent-A01
I hope you aren't looking at the 960 in device manager(that's the wrong place)
ATOJAR
Still dont get why my software is telling me im on the latest version when there is clearly a newer firmware out?
https://imgur.com/a/mYl5K
https://imgur.com/a/mYl5K
The Goose
960 pro 500gb with latest firmware and drivers(2.3) all running nicely.
The Goose
Mine did until i updated, if you click the refresh button(top left) it should tell you there is new version
