[LVFS] What SSD to buy if the firmware shall be flashable via Linux
Elmar Stellnberger <[email protected]> Sun, 6 Nov 2022 17:37:32 +0100
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Dear people at the LVFS mailing list I wanna buy a new 2TB SATA SSD and it should be possible to flash the firmware under Linux via the LVFS tools which is to my knowledge fwupdtool. It is important that I can also flash the firmware if it is already tagged to be the newest because once I lost a drive apparently because its firmware got damaged although no newer update for it was available. It didn=B4t get damaged by flashing but via a cracking incident. So from what vendor shall I buy my new SSD? I have read that some or perhaps all Samsung drives can be used with fwupdtool. Previously I had buyed Crucial SSDs because they had a proprietary Linux compatible flashing tool which did however only work for updates not for pure rewrites of the firmware. Can anyone help? Is there a Linux compatibility list for those who wanna be able to flash the drive firmware of a SSD, HDD or CDROM and who want to check this out before acutally purchasing such a device? Regards, Elmar Stellnberger (Dipl.-Ing.)