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Intel starts shipping SSDs again
CHIPZILLA has restarted shipping its latest solid-state drives (SSDs) after fixing a password bug that made the drives inoperable.
Intel said that it had issued updated firmware for the Intel X25-M consumer SSDs which can be found on its website.
An Intel spokesman said that shipments of the drives to retailers have also resumed with the bug now fixed.
Shipments were halted when users complained that when they set a BIOS drive password on the newly released SSDs the whole lot would be bricked.
The new X25-M and X18-M SSDs were released on 21 July and were targeted at laptop and desktop PCs.
However the SSD's new firmware does have some known problems. Some systems, including Macs with Nvidia chipsets, do not instantly recognise an Intel SSD.
You have to complete the SSD firmware upgrade on a system without an Nvidia chipset, and then reinstall the drive in the system with an Nvidia chipset while standing on one foot and facing Cappuccino shouting "Imasmuggit", which we understand is standard for an Apple upgrade these days. µ
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I would really love to put the Intel drive into my notebook's ExpressCard slot as an boot drive.
That way Windows and programs could work as fast as they should whilst I still have the ol' rotating harddrive in its old place for data-storage.
Ah, that must be it: they spelled the SSD password ("Imasmuggit") using a lower-case "i" instead of capitalized.
Two errors in this article:
Setting a BIOS drive password didn't brick the drives, removing a BIOS drive password would brick the drive.
Intel's SSD firmware does not have any known problems. Intel's Firmware Update Tool has a known problem with recognizing Macs with NVidia Chipsets.
just be glad that the SSD mastermind of the inq, nebojsa, didn't write this article. I guess he would've written that the intel drives are bricking a macbook when you reset your MAC OS X password. of course that would be of no interest to him since his advanced benchmark suite sandra won't run on the mac.
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