More thoughts on SSDs
I have just gone through that buttock clenching experience of a firmware upgrade on my SSD drive. This should be a simple and easy task, I have done it many times on ordinary disks from within a Windows session, indeed firmware upgrades for all things come thick and fast in the land of HP servers, you download the ISO run the update program and all sorts of firmware updates happen it gets on with it and then you reboot and all is well again. BIOS updates for motherboards even happen from within Windows these days, unfortunately it seems that Micron, care of it's Crucial arm, aren't up with the project. To update a C300 SSD you need to download the ISO, burn it to CD then change your SATA settings in your BIOS to IDE only, AHCI will break it. you then need to make sure your SSD is in channel 0-3 or the update program won’t see it. Then you boot off the CD and run through the program, typing yes at the appropriate moment. Did I mention you need to back up your data first? The...