Kingston Discovers SSDNow V100 Firmware Issue – Releases New Fixed Firmware
Kingston recently discovered a technical issue with their SSDNow V100 solid-state drive. A small percentage of the drives have been shown to hang at post and fail to boot. Kingston has developed a firmware update to address this issue. Affected Part Numbers are: SV100S2/64GZ, SV100S2D/64GZ, SV100S2N/64GZ, SV100S2/128GZ, SV100S2D/128GZ, SV100S2N/128GZ, SV100S2/256GZ, SV100S2N/256GZ, SV100S2N/256GZ. You can download the new firmware update from their support page. By updating the firmware you should be upgrading from firmware revision D100811a (11/1/2010) to D110225a (3/15/2011).
We have learned that a small percentage of our SSDNow V100 sold in the past has experienced a technical issue on the firmware. Kingston strongly recommends that a firmware update be applied to all SSDNow V100 drives to prevent possible data loss. The firmware update to fix the technical issue is available via Kingston Technical Support. As with any firmware update, we recommend that you back up your data prior to applying the firmware revision. Customer satisfaction and producing high quality products is the key to Kingstons success, so we want to make every effort to ensure that our customers are aware of this firmware revision and have the opportunity to patch their V100 drive(s).
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