SSD Firmware and OSX

[vogelhausdesign]

Hey everyone, Just wanted to ask a few questions about firmware and SSD's. Is there any way to check which firmware you have under osx? Windows? I'd like to find out what firmware my OWC Mercury Extreme 120g has, and if it was shipped with the recent upgrade.

If it's not, what is the best way to go about upgrading the firmware? Reformatting to windows, wiping the drive clean, then installing (under win7) ?

 

[xgman]

Ina a mac pro, if you have a spare drive, install and boot into windows with your ssd attached. Flash the unformatted SSD. Then Install OSX from a backup or clone of your oSX drive.

OWC should have some sort of tool to read the SSD firmware.

 

[VirtualRain]

I vaguely recall using a Smart Utility like this in OSX to read my firmware version on my Intel SSD's... http://www.volitans-software.com/smart_utility.php

 

[vogelhausdesign]

Thanks guys, I didn't see anything from OWC I checked their site earlier. Also how do you unformat a drive? Sounds stupid but I don't think I've ever tried to return a drive to it's factory state.

Anyone willing to give a step by step on firmware upgrading a mercury elite?

 

[VirtualRain]

If you want to restore your drive to factory condition, you need to use this process...

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/841182/

Do you really need to do a firmware upgrade? That will require the firmware and some kind of bootable CD / tool to flash the drive. I presume if there is a firmware update to be had, OWC would provide all that.