Latest Samsung 960 Pro Firmware Update Causes Application Freezes, Instability

[Jim K Global Moderator]

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Users of Samsung's 960 Pro SSD's that have updated to the latest firmware version (3B6QCXP7) have been reporting far, wide, and through a variety of outlets, the existence of problems that lead to application instability and OS freezes lasting for several seconds before the system resumes normal functions. Apparently, there's no hard-crashing involved as of yet, though the issue seems to be widespread enough that it's generating discussion in Samsung's forums, our own, and some other tech publication's. It seems the 960 Pro is getting stuck with 100% activity reports in the task manager with read and write speeds of 0. At the same time, some users are reporting performance degradation by sometimes up to 1,400 MB/s in read speeds when benchmarking the drives, which also doesn't bode well for the firmware's pedigree.

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I know we got a few folks around here running this SSD.  Might want to watch out for that latest firmware.

[DevTech]

Checking my firmware now. So far the drive has been an eye-popping performer that has me planning to buy nothing other than Samsung 960s for the foreseeable future.