Your SSD needs to be on the latest firmware to ensure smooth performance. Here's how you update the SSD firmware in Windows.

You don't need to update your SSD's firmware constantly. There aren't a ton of updates in the first place, and even if there were, it shouldn't be part of your routine maintenance. I'd wager that ...

Minor thing. When I update my Western Digital SSD firmware, it takes only seconds, and doesn't even require a reboot. Is the firmware on drives just extremely tiny, so that's how it can go so fast ...

Seagate has issued a new firmware update for its FireCuda 530 NVMe SSD that will improve the performance of DirectStorage supported games.

Just checked..it apppears I can't update the firmware on my 860 Evo either. Purchased about 3 years after the 850 at another store.

Samsung has released new firmware for its latest and greatest SSD, and owners should probably install it ASAP.

The affected version of the firmware is 3B2QGXA7, though Puget Systems claims that drives running the 4B2QGXA7 firmware should be fine, even if Samsung is recommended the more recent update.