Samsung EVO SSD - Windows 10 Freeze

[frase]

Had an Issue with Win10 latest "Creators" Update. On this particular system, after about 10mins or so system would freeze, mouse would move though unable to click on anything.

Eventually updated the Firmware for the SSD, solved the issue after I already had reinstalled OS etc grr.

I used this tool here - SSD Magician

http://www.samsung.com/sg/support/model/MZ-75E120BW#downloads

Might help other nibblers here

 

[GTP]

Why not get SSD Magician directly from Samsung?
I wouldn't trust Major Geeks.

 

[frase]

Amended link - I dunno was in a hurry.

 

[cypress]

Thank you, this helps. I will be installing Samsung SSD on my laptop with a clean install of Windows 10. The upgrade was well over due.

 

[lcoughey]

Which Samsung EVO series are we talking about? 840? 850?

 

[LostBit]

Why not get SSD Magician directly from Samsung?
I wouldn't trust Major Geeks.

Usually I would do the same, as a rule of thumb. Strangely enough, the version downloadable in Samsung's link is a bit outdated, not so at Major Geeks which seems to be the latest version available. Take a look at the digital signatures dates and you will see.

Btw, if digital signatures are OK, you can be 99.99% sure your file is clean or not corrupt, even it wasn't downloaded from the official source.

 

[GTP]

The link I posted was Singaporean. I didn't look at the Samsung Australia site.
Sometimes it takes a while for them to update links and I've found in the past that they post version x.x but when you download it, it is the latest.

 

[frase]

Which Samsung EVO series are we talking about? 840? 850?

in my case was 840

 

[lcoughey]

With the 840 EVO, make sure it is never powered off for any significant periods of time. The longer it is powered off, the more data loss occurs.

http://forum.acelaboratory.com/viewtopic.php?f=227&t=8735

 

[Howie Johnson]

With the 840 EVO, make sure it is never powered off for any significant periods of time. The longer it is powered off, the more data loss occurs.

http://forum.acelaboratory.com/viewtopic.php?f=227&t=8735

I had thought that story was just a urban myth. Thanks for sharing

 

[lcoughey]

I had thought that story was just a urban myth. Thanks for sharing

I've had the unpleasant pleasure of trying to recover the data from several of these drives. Other larger labs called one unrecoverable because they had not tools to interface with it. By the time I got it, it had been off for over 6 months. I was only able to read about 50% of the sectors, making the number of recoverable files considerably less. And it only took 2 months of fighting to get that much.

Samsung 840 EVO are EVIL!

 

[fencepost]

Wow, OK, so when I semi-retire my current laptop (with mSATA 840 EVO), I should image it over to a different drive before shelving it....

I don't think I'd ever heard of this before.

 

[GTP]

I just did some "googling" about this and found a ton of information on it.
It appears to have come from a huge misunderstanding.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2925...nt-lose-data-if-left-unplugged-after-all.html

I am certainly no expert, but If this actually did occur there would be millions of people running around with pitch forks!
Around the world there would be millions of computers with 840 EVO's powered off for extended periods so wouldn't they all lose their data?
Surely Samsung would post a warning on the packaging if it were true.

 

[smikwily]

New here, so hope I'm not out of line, but if you are using the Samsung drives on Windows, be sure to check out their free cloning/migration software available from their main download site: http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/download/tools.html

Like the comments above, you can download it Samsung, but as of the last few days, it immediately prompts for an update on first run. It only works when going "to" a new Samsung series SSD (not sure about mSATA, but 840, 850 2.5" are fine), but we've had very good luck with it. It won't downsize, but we moved a few disk based systems over to it with McAfee encryption installed with no issues at all. It runs from within Windows, so you don't have to make a bootable, etc.

It may be worth grabbing the Samsung Magician software and running it on the new drive to make sure the firmware is updated. I haven't tested if that is possible from an external drive or not, so you may need to migrate then update.