{"id":872,"date":"2012-07-19T13:14:48","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T12:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=872"},"modified":"2012-07-19T13:14:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T12:14:48","slug":"ocz-vertex-4-wont-updateflash-to-version-1-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=872","title":{"rendered":"OCZ Vertex 4 won&#8217;t update\/flash to version 1.5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=957&amp;awinaffid=88926&amp;clickref=ssd&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.novatech.co.uk%2Fsearch.html%3Fs%3DVTX4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-873\" title=\"The OCZ Vertex 4 on the Novatech website\" src=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/vertex4-296x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/vertex4-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/vertex4.jpg 592w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m quite a perfectionist when it comes to making sure that hardware runs with the latest firmware, quite often these software updates bring improved stability and features. In SSDs though it quite commonly brings about performance boosts.<\/p>\n<p>However when trying to update the Vertex 4s I recently received to build a <a href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?series=custom-remotefx-rds-farm\">Custom RDS Farm<\/a> I would go to <strong>update the drive<\/strong>, <strong>reboot<\/strong> the system (as directed) only to find that <strong>there hadn&#8217;t been any firmware update at all<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>I started experimenting and <strong>one fix I have found<\/strong> is to <strong>flash the drive<\/strong>, <strong>shut down<\/strong> the PC and then <strong>remove the SATA power\/data cables<\/strong> from the drive and <strong>leave the drive un-powered for a few minutes<\/strong>.<br \/>\nNext <strong>reboot the PC with the drive plugged back in<\/strong> and lone behold <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>its updated!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The screen shots below show this in a little more detail.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m quite a perfectionist when it comes to making sure that hardware runs with the latest firmware, quite often these software updates bring improved stability and features. In SSDs though it quite commonly brings about performance boosts. However when trying to update the Vertex 4s I recently received to build a Custom RDS Farm I would go to update the&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=872\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[119,87,30,39,118],"series":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","tag-firmware","tag-firmware-flashing","tag-ocz","tag-ssd","tag-vertex-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":881,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions\/881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=872"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}