To run the Firmware updater, the SSD must be attached directly to an SATA port. It's the same thing stopping them from making Trim drivers or firmware upgrade utilities for OS X, and is why you have to use Boot CDs." "The reason for Samsung not producing a OSX version of this tool is because they can't.Īpple does not expose the necessary driver stack for such disk interaction. Make sure you always fetch the latest Magician first, otherwise older versions claim the firmware is up to date, even if it is blatantly older than any other SSD in that machine!Īs my old 2008 Mac Pro will have nothing to do with any of the CD/USB stick update methods, I thought that might be sufficient.Īs it turned out, I still needed to actually clone my boot partition, format to NTFS, reperform on Windows, then clone back - before I got back the drive's speed to as it was when new.Ī comment from Cindori on why there is no 'easy way' on Mac… The drive must be attached internal SATA, it doesn't work in an external USB enclosure.
It will update on a GUID/Mac Extended drive. However, I today discovered that you can update the Firmware, though not reperform, by using a Windows PC & the latest Samsung Magician utility without losing any data. I appreciate this is 'link only' but this answer is turning into a novel -) It appears that no Mac made before 2012 can use this method, but I discovered yet another method using UNetbootin & a USB key - linked here Just to give you a reason why i want to update the firmware.Īdding to my answer as info trickles through on the interweb… P.S: I've got problems with the SSD getting slow and have serious problems with a freezing finder where i hope the firmware update and the performance restauration help to get it running again. I've already tried booting into Bootcamp where this tool runs fine and also recognizes the SSD on the Thunderbolt port but it won't work as it only recognizes NTFS partitions and mine has HFS+ ofcourse.Īny idea how to get that running? I'm on Yosemite with all machines, so rEFInd doesn't seem to be so easy to and i'm not sure if it would be a good idea to use it to get something like freedos running or whatever that Samsung tools need to get running.
As i don't have an external CD for my iMac and not planning to have one i wonder what other way would be possible to update the firmware and probably use thise Performance restauration tool from Samsung that they offer for Windows. I know there's a firmware update out which is already available for Mac users too but they only offer an iso image that only seems to work when used on a self burned CD. I got one of these Samsung 840 Evo Basic 500GB on an iMac (used externally in a TB case - standalone, not Fusion).
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