2015-01-12

Update Samsung SSD 840 EVO firmware on Zotac Linux server (poor read performance of old files).

My Samsung SSD 840 EVO was suffering from the apparently well known problem that 'old' files (files which have been written a long while ago and not touched since) had slow read transfer rates (as low as 5 MBytes/s in places, 29 MBytes/s for some big files I had).

I have a Zotac server without a CD drive, so I needed to run the Samsung Performance Restauration tool. I used the DOS / Mac variant which is a DOS bootable disk which contains the update tool. The easiest way to prepare the USB stick is NOT to use the USB zip provided by Samsung but to use the *.iso file (Samsung_Performance_Restoration.iso) instead:

- Mount the ISO file and get the file ISOLINUX/BTDSK.IMG from it.
- dd the BTDSK.IMG directly onto a USB stick
- boot from the USB stick and follow the instructions

On my Zotac machine when booting from this USB stick I got a couple of broken error messages about not being able to boot from device XYZ, but it booted OK from the stick after a couple of seconds.

The performance restauration procedure took 4.5h for a 1TB SSD (60% full) and about 15h for another 1TB SSD (95% full), so expect this to take some time.

Both SSDs were not erased by the procedure.


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