Updating firmware on Intel SSDs

ByStorage_jm

The first thing I do when installing a new SSD is update the firmware. I did a talk last year on Monitoring the health of NVMe SSDs, and I talked a lot of the fact that firmware bugs make up the majority of SSD failures. Luckily, Intel makes it very easy to update the firmware on their SSDs through a tool called IntelMAS.

Download IntelMAS GUI

Download IntelMAS CLI

After you download the CLI you can unzip it on your windows machine you can copy it to your Ubuntu machine with SCP

scp .\intelmas_1.7.130-0_amd64.deb name@ipaddress:~/
sudo dpkg -i intelmas_1.7.130-0_amd64.deb

If you want to download directly you can do

wget https://downloadmirror.intel.com/30379/eng/Intel%C2%AE_MAS_CLI_Tool_Linux_1.7.zip
sudo apt install unzip
unzip unzip Intel®_MAS_CLI_Tool_Linux_1.7.zip
sudo dpkg -i intelmas_1.7.130-0_amd64.deb

sudo nvme list

$ sudo nvme list
Node             SN                   Model                                    Namespace Usage                      Format           FW Rev
---------------- -------------------- ---------------------------------------- --------- -------------------------- ---------------- --------
/dev/nvme0n1     XXX            INTEL SSDPE2KX020T8                      1           2.00  TB /   2.00  TB      4 KiB +  0 B   VDV10170
/dev/nvme1n1     XXX            INTEL SSDPE2KX020T8                      1           2.00  TB /   2.00  TB      4 KiB +  0 B   VDV10170
$ sudo intelmas show -intelssd

- 0 Intel SSD DC P4510 Series XXX-

Bootloader : 0172
Capacity : 2000.40 GB
CurrentPercent : 100.00
DevicePath : /dev/nvme0n1
DeviceStatus : Healthy
Firmware : VDV10170
FirmwareUpdateAvailable : The selected drive contains current firmware as of this tool release.
Index : 0
MaximumLBA : 488378645
ModelNumber : INTEL SSDPE2KX020T8
NamespaceId : 1
ProductFamily : Intel SSD DC P4510 Series
SMARTEnabled : True
SectorDataSize : 4096
SerialNumber : XXX

Select the disk you want to update by index

sudo intelmas load -intelssd 0

NVMe controller level reset

sudo nvme reset /dev/nvme0
sudo nvme list

done!

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