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Not so solid crew
I just read your “So Solid Crew” feature in the May 2022 issue, and I thought I should respond with a buyer beware comment in terms of the Seagate Firecuda 530. As good as the drive is, the Seagate does have one serious chink in its armor, which is that Seagate has no utility for updating the firmware.
To do a firmware update, you must find and download the relevant .bin file from Seagate, then you had best know your way around PowerShell and be able to follow convoluted command line string instructions from Seagate. That issue alone makes the other vendors’ options look much more appealing.
I did find some online posts indicating that people had successfully used the Seagate’s Seatools firmware update to update their SSD firmware, but Seagate does not list that as a supported method.
I wish I’d known this before I splashed out for the Firecuda 530 a year and a half
