Latest Samsung Magician Software Released

bikemanAMD · Jul 7, 2025

Just Refreshed System with a Clean Install, and Moved Samsung 990 Pro 1TB With Heatsink to Slot 1 from Slot 2, and Installed as Game NVMe--Samsung 990 Pro 2TB

Firmware shows its up to date, not sure if it really is or not

Scott · Jul 7, 2025

Yes, you have the latest firmware.

bikemanAMD · Jul 7, 2025

Scott said:
Yes, you have the latest firmware.

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Even latest Firmwire for #2 Samsung 990 Pro 2TB, Game NVMe

Josey Wales · Jul 7, 2025

bikemanAMD said:
Even latest Firmwire for #2 Samsung 990 Pro 2TB, Game NVMe

I believe Samsung pulled that update. your second one should be the same as the first.

bikemanAMD · Jul 7, 2025

Josey Wales said:
I believe Samsung pulled that update. your second one should be the same as the first.

Just Installed 2nd one yesterday, and didn't see any update available for 2nd one thru Samsung Magician

Dru2 · Jul 7, 2025

Per the Samsung Magician software it looks like those firmware updates have been pulled.

Zero issues with my drives so I'll just keep what I have and wait to see what Samsung does from here. No need to force things here.

hdmi · Jul 7, 2025

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/1lqeqig/samsung_990_pro_firmware_6b2qjxd7_20250702

hdmi · Jul 7, 2025

According to some people at least, If you're not using VMD, then a possible workaround can be to reboot first, then close Samsung Magician and run Samsung Magician as an administrator. Then try updating the firmware in Samsung Magician and, if it still fails, just try it one more time.

hdmi · Jul 7, 2025

bikemanAMD said:
Just Refreshed System with a Clean Install, and Moved Samsung 990 Pro 1TB With Heatsink to Slot 1 from Slot 2, and Installed as Game NVMe--Samsung 990 Pro 2TB

Firmware shows its up to date, not sure if it really is or not

View attachment 138672

The 1TB is, but the 2TB is not or if it is, then apparently it means that Samsung Magician is reporting it wrong. (Either way, you should still be able to find out if it's wrong or not, like how I have explained in my post #58.)

bikemanAMD · Jul 7, 2025

Reads Post #58, and Gets the ISO on a USB, don't think i have AMD VMD enabled, or if i do, not sure where in UEFI Bios that would be lol. or i can check Samsung Magician one more time early tomorrow or late tonight with PC Admin account and see if it says anything different for 2TB One lol.

Will get it figured out though as soon as can here

hdmi · Jul 7, 2025

bikemanAMD said:
Reads Post #58, and Gets the ISO on a USB, don't think i have AMD VMD enabled, or if i do, not sure where in UEFI Bios that would be lol. or i can check Samsung Magician one more time early tomorrow or late tonight with PC Admin account and see if it says anything different for 2TB One lol.

Will get it figured out though as soon as can here

The ISO tool can be used to check if Samsung Magician is reporting the firmware version incorrectly, which might still be happening regardless of whether you have VMD. In UEFI settings, for reasons that should be completely obvious, temporarily disabling VMD only is possible if you have VMD and VMD is set to enabled. A fair number of systems require VMD to be enabled to be able too boot in Windows, but the ISO tool is based on Linux and it's possible to boot in that one with or without VMD. Only if VMD is enabled, neither Samsung Magician nor the ISO tool can update the firmware of the Samsung NVMe SSDs. Whereas if VMD either is disabled (be it temporarily disabled or disabled on a more permanent basis) or is not present, you might be able to use the ISO tool to update the firmware in the possible event that, no matter what you try to do with Samsung Magician, Samsung Magician won't let you.

As an aside, I have the 2TB 980 PRO (purchased new & unused at 229 Euros inc free shipping on Cyber Monday in 2021). I had to update its firmware only one time, which went perfectly smooth on the first try with Samsung Magician.

PurSpyk!! · Jul 8, 2025

hdmi said:
The ISO tool can be used to check if Samsung Magician is reporting the firmware version incorrectly, which might still be happening regardless of whether you have VMD. In UEFI settings, for reasons that should be completely obvious, temporarily disabling VMD only is possible if you have VMD and VMD is set to enabled. A fair number of systems require VMD to be enabled to be able too boot in Windows, but the ISO tool is based on Linux and it's possible to boot in that one with or without VMD. Only if VMD is enabled, neither Samsung Magician nor the ISO tool can update the firmware of the Samsung NVMe SSDs. Whereas if VMD either is disabled (be it temporarily disabled or disabled on a more permanent basis) or is not present, you might be able to use the ISO tool to update the firmware in the possible event that, no matter what you try to do with Samsung Magician, Samsung Magician won't let you.

As an aside, I have the 2TB 980 PRO (purchased new & unused at 229 Euros inc free shipping on Cyber Monday in 2021). I had to update its firmware only one time, which went perfectly smooth on the first try with Samsung Magician.

If you disable VMD in the BIOS could this cause data loss? Will updating the ssd firmware remove all data on the ssd?

Spartan · Jul 8, 2025

What a shame that even in this day and age when many computers are configured in RAID/VMD and Samsung Magician still cannot update the firmware or even detect the SSD.

I just updated my WD_Black SN850X 8TB firmware while it's in VMD and RAID 0

hdmi · Jul 8, 2025

PurSpyk!! said:
If you disable VMD in the BIOS could this cause data loss? Will updating the ssd firmware remove all data on the ssd?

It depends. If you accidentally try to boot from the SSD after you temporarily disabled VMD in the BIOS, in the vast majority of cases it will just give you an INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE error, which will normally go away after you re-enable VMD in the BIOS, and then all data on the SSD should still be perfectly fine. However, in some cases you might lose the data stored on the SSD anyway—even though this is uncommon. The ISO tool also warns you that, first, you should make a full backup of all important data on the SSD. I highly recommend to store this backup on a separate physical drive.

That said, there can be things that you can do to mitigate the potential risk of needing to restore from backup. However, some people use that as a pretext to not needing to create the backup. Therefore, "it depends" is the correct answer.

hdmi · Jul 8, 2025

Spartan said:
What a shame that even in this day and age when many computers are configured in RAID/VMD and Samsung Magician still cannot update the firmware or even detect the SSD.

I just updated my WD_Black SN850X 8TB firmware while it's in VMD and RAID 0

I like the spinning wheel in Samsung Magician's Drive Dashboard.

Spartan · Jul 8, 2025

hdmi said:
I like the spinning wheel in Samsung Magician's Drive Dashboard.

bikemanAMD · Jul 8, 2025

Well tried the Samsung USB method, but cannot boot with that, maybe cause i tightend secure boot with those Revocations....but ideally i'd like it to update thru Magician for my Samsung 990 Pro 2TB, if i can ever get the stupid Program to see the update, right now it says im on latest version 5B2QJXD7

My Samsung 990 Pro 1Tb is on the Updated version

Anyways i guess i'll check Magician again on Admin account either tomorrow or the day after, unless someone knows another solution. Or how to properly setup the USB stick method

Gonna drive me nuts til both drives updated i know it

johnlgalt · Jul 8, 2025

hdmi said:
As an aside, I have the 2TB 980 PRO (purchased new & unused at 229 Euros inc free shipping on Cyber Monday in 2021). I had to update its firmware only one time, which went perfectly smooth on the first try with Samsung Magician.

I have 3 of those in my system, and the one update is all I ever remember as well.

bikemanAMD said:
Anyways i guess i'll check Magician again on Admin account either tomorrow or the day after, unless someone knows another solution. Or how to properly setup the USB stick method

Rufus should do the trick. If it doesn't in the normal method, try again and change it to use 'dd' instead of the whole ISO method.

You may also have to temporarily disable Secure Boot, as well, just so you know. I don't think you have to, but some systems just don't care to boot viable Linux boot drives that are Secure Boot friendly for whatever reason.

bikemanAMD · Jul 8, 2025

johnlgalt said:
I have 3 of those in my system, and the one update is all I ever remember as well.

Rufus should do the trick. If it doesn't in the normal method, try again and change it to use 'dd' instead of the whole ISO method.

You may also have to temporarily disable Secure Boot, as well, just so you know. I don't think you have to, but some systems just don't care to boot viable Linux boot drives that are Secure Boot friendly for whatever reason.

Ok i'll give that a shot either late tonight or early tomorrow again, and see how what happens, this time i will try with Rufus setting up the USB stick for Samsung Firmware. Hopefully it works properly this time lol, but will see

Dru2 · Jul 8, 2025

bikemanAMD said:
Ok i'll give that a shot either late tonight or early tomorrow again, and see how what happens, this time i will try with Rufus setting up the USB stick for Samsung Firmware. Hopefully it works properly this time lol, but will see

If you're not having issues why not wait. That's what I'm doing. Plus I don't like forcing things that shouldn't be.

I'm running three 990 Pros and have zero issues so I'm good

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