Intel SSD Firmware Fix On Its Way

Santa Clara, California-based Intel announced late last month that it had encountered a firmware issue with its brand-new 34nm Solid State Drives, which would affect users' stored data, under certain circumstances. The company promised to look for a solution and announced that it would suspend its shipments for the new 34nm SSDs until the firmware issue would be fixed and users could take full advantage of the performance specifications of the new drives. On that note, the chip maker has recently announced that the firmware update, which would provide users with a fix for the reported problem, was well on its way and could become available by the end of this week.

 

“We have already found the fix. We are in the process of validating now, and it should be ready to distribute by the end of the week,” an Intel spokesperson said.

 

The world's leading chip maker looks to remain committed to provide its customers with support for the recently discovered flaw. Users, according to Intel's statement, should soon be able to take full advantage of their latest SSDs, using the new 34nm manufacturing process. However, it is yet uncertain whether the firmware fix will allow them to regain access to the data that has been affected by the SSDs' BIOS issue.

 

As a quick reminder, Intel announced last week that it had encountered a flaw with its new 34nm SSDs, which would affect people who had set a password in the SSD's BIOS. According to the company, after setting up the BIOS password and the computer system is turned off, the drive becomes inoperable and the user's data will no longer be accessible. The issue has been encountered only under these circumstances and users who haven't set a BIOS password should have no problem with accessing their stored data.