How to Update the Firmware of an Intel® SSD with the Intel® Memory and Storage Tool

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Resources: The application, Installation Guide and User Guides are all available in Download Center:

• Intel® Memory and Storage Tool (GUI)
• Intel® Memory and Storage Tool (CLI)

Using Intel® MAS GUI

1. Open the application.
2. Select the Firmware Update on the left side panel.
   • The Summary page will also display if there is a firmware update available for each of the supported drives with the current version of the application.
3. If available, press Firmware Update as seen in the image below.

   

Using Intel® MAS CLI

1. Open the operating system command line interface:
   • [Windows*] Open Command Prompt as Administrator.
     1. Click on Windows menu.
     2. Type command prompt.
     3. Click on Run as administrator.
   • [Linux*] Open Terminal with root privileges.
     1. Press CTRL+ALT+T.
     2. Type sudo su
        • Ensure the command line interface begins with # and not $, as this indicates user has root privileges.
2. Type the following: intelmas load -intelssd <ssd_index>
   • See instructions above under Identify and display drive information for details on how to identify the drive index: <ssd_index>
   • Users can create a script to update multiple drives.

SSDs in RAID? With the Intel® Memory and Storage Tool (CLI) the drive's firmware can be updated in systems utilizing Intel® RST, Intel® RSTe, and Intel® VROC.

Updated firmware is also supported with the following hardware RAID cards. Before proceeding in this case, first use the following command: intelmas set -system EnableLSIAdapter='true'.

Supported RAID cards:

• MR SAS 9260-16i (RAID card chipset LSI-2108)
• MR SAS 9270-8i (RAID card chipset LSI-2208)
• MR SAS 9341-4i (RAID card chipset LSI-3008)
• MR SAS 9341-8i (RAID card chipset LSI-3008)
• MR SAS 9361-4i (RAID card chipset LSI-3108)

For unsupported configurations, customers may use MegaCli/StorCli or other tools.