Write something about the MP600 firmware version

[eriksjolund]

I was wondering if the firmware version of the CORSAIR Force Series MP600 1 Tb could influence its speed?

This forum comment https://forum.corsair.com/v3/showpost.php?p=1038501&postcount=198 says really horrible write speed for that persons hardware:

• MP600 1TB
• Asus prime X570-P

Here are some discussions https://forum.corsair.com/v3/showthread.php?t=189618

I read at https://forum.corsair.com/v3/showthread.php?t=189743 that the latest firmware version for the CORSAIR Force Series MP600 1 Tb is version 11.3

CORSAIR SSD TOOLBOX

Unfortunately the firmware upgrade tool CORSAIR SSD TOOLBOX only runs on Microsoft Windows operating systems.

https://corsair.com

• click Support -> Downloads
• As Select category choose STORAGE

You will see a download link for

CORSAIR SSD TOOLBOX Software 1.2.5.7 | 09/17/2019

• Click the download link
• Click Or skip this step and start Download

You will then start to download http://downloads.corsair.com/Files/SSD/CSSDT_1.2.5.7_WIN.zip

Smartmontools might be able to show the SSD firmware version in Linux

Showing an example of how to use the command smartctl from smartmontools to display firmware information. This is not an CORSAIR Force Series MP600 1 Tb but another brand and model.

[root@centos8 ~]# smartctl -i /dev/nvme0n1
smartctl 6.6 2017-11-05 r4594 [x86_64-linux-4.18.0-147.8.1.el8_1.x86_64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-17, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Number:                       Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB
Serial Number:                      S4EWNG0M300767Y
Firmware Version:                   1B2QEXM7
PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID:            0x144d
IEEE OUI Identifier:                0x002538
Total NVM Capacity:                 1,000,204,886,016 [1.00 TB]
Unallocated NVM Capacity:           0
Controller ID:                      4
Number of Namespaces:               1
Namespace 1 Size/Capacity:          1,000,204,886,016 [1.00 TB]
Namespace 1 Utilization:            5,391,454,208 [5.39 GB]
Namespace 1 Formatted LBA Size:     512
Namespace 1 IEEE EUI-64:            002538 5391509a6c
Local Time is:                      Fri Apr 17 08:40:32 2020 CEST

[root@centos8 ~]#   

(Right now I don't have log in permissions to the built PC)

If you have built a similar PC as this Github project and you are running Linux, it would be interesting if you could run smartctl -i /dev/nvme0n1 and show the result.

[eriksjolund]

I was able to run the command smartctl -i /dev/nvme0n1 on a computer having the hardware specified by this Github project.

root@ubuntu2004:~# smartctl -i /dev/nvme0n1
smartctl 7.1 2019-12-30 r5022 [x86_64-linux-5.4.0-28-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-19, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Number:                       Force MP600
Serial Number:                      20068229000128554A54
Firmware Version:                   EGFM11.3
PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID:            0x1987
IEEE OUI Identifier:                0x6479a7
Total NVM Capacity:                 1 000 204 886 016 [1,00 TB]
Unallocated NVM Capacity:           0
Controller ID:                      1
Number of Namespaces:               1
Namespace 1 Size/Capacity:          1 000 204 886 016 [1,00 TB]
Namespace 1 Formatted LBA Size:     512
Namespace 1 IEEE EUI-64:            6479a7 2fd0190036
Local Time is:                      Wed Apr 29 17:16:59 2020 CEST

root@ubuntu2004:~# 

(The SSD has the same firmware as when it was shipped. I have not performed any firmware update on the SSD)

[eriksjolund]

sudo nvme list shows the firmware version in the column FW Rev

erik@ubuntu2004:~$ sudo nvme list
Node             SN                   Model                                    Namespace Usage                      Format           FW Rev  
---------------- -------------------- ---------------------------------------- --------- -------------------------- ---------------- --------
/dev/nvme0n1     20068229000128554A54 Force MP600                              1           1,00  TB /   1,00  TB    512   B +  0 B   EGFM11.3
erik@ubuntu2004:~$