14 DAY TRIAL // Following a series of previous reports that surfaced on the Internet last week, Intel, the world's leading vendor of computer processors, has finally come up with a firmware update for its latest line of Flash-based Solid State Drives, designed using the company's latest 34nm manufacturing technology. The firmware is now available for download, right here on Softpedia, and comes to provide users of the new drives with a solution to the reported password bug that affected their stored data.
As we reported a while back, the issue has led Intel to stop the shipments of its new SSDs, claiming that these drives will restart shipping the moment the firmware fix is available. It now appears that shipments of the drives to retailers have been resumed, enabling users to try the new drives on their own. With the firmware fix now available, they can take full advantage of the performance specifications of the new SSDs from Intel.
According to the release notes of the firmware update tool, the revision has been designed for the company's recently introduced X25-M 34nm products, as the X18-M 34nm models don't require the update. The firmware is designed to fix the following issues:
System hangs with BIOS drive password enabled System inoperable when BIOS drive password disabled or changed
The bug, which we reported on late last month, was said to have affected users of the new 34nm SSDs that set a BIOS drive password. Apparently, after turning the PC system off, the drives became inoperable and access to users' data was restricted.
The Intel SATA SSD Firmware Update Tool 1.5 is now available for download, right here on Softpedia, following this link. If you are among those who have already purchased one of these new drives, it's highly recommended that you install the firmware fix.