Can I Firmware Upgrade EVO via OS X?

[Carlosinfl]

Can the Samsung EVO 500GB SSD be patched / upgraded from OS X? The drive is attached via SATA ---> USB 3.0 but I can also attach the drive as a slave where my optical drive used to be. Point is the SSD is not my boot/system drive but all I have available to me is OS X. Is there any options? All the guides and sites require Windows.

 

[westrock2000]

Just off memory I think they said they *would* make a tool for Linux and OS X users but I do not know if that ever happened.

 

[Sprayingmango]

I've put Evo's inside both of my 2014 iMacs (bought the kit from iFixit, cut the monitor off, installed drive, put new sticky stuff on) and I also upgraded the CPU to an i7...but that's another story.

I attempted to update the firmware using EVERY available tool (created USB boot drives, used their downloable ISO, used CD-rom boot discs, etc.) and NOTHING would work. For whatever reason, the drive cannot be accessed from the UEFI on a system with Mavericks or Yosemite, at least I could never get it to work. The firmware updater Samsung supplies would see the drive, it would start the update, then just hang indefinitely or stop working all together.

I finally had to resort to cutting my monitor off again and buying new foam sticky strips and pulling the drives to update on my windows machine. Totally sucked....

 

[timta2]

The USB drivers in Mac OS X are rather limiting, when it comes to using external devices, like hard drives. You're best off throwing it in a PC with a SATA interface to do the updating. Everyone has a friend or family member that at least has a bobo pc.