Download Firmware OCZ Vertex & Agility & Onyx & Solid 2 (EX/Turbo) series 1.6

OCZ Technology has released new firmware for its Vertex, Onyx, Solid 2 and Agility SSDs with version number 1.6. Upgraders should pay attention, the SSDs must have firmware version 1.5 before this update can be performed. The steps to perform the update are in this topic clearly described on the OCZ forum. For user experiences with ssds you can of course visit the large ssd topic on our own forum. The list of changes for this release is as follows:

Changes/additions since 1.50

For ATA Security, The following improvements were made.

• Ignoring user password at SEC1
• IDENTIFY will reflect current ATA security status more correctly.
• More read fail scenarios were added to firmware bad block management.

Issues resolved since version 1.50

• SMART self test progress status nibble value was wrong when completed. It should remain at 0, not revert back to 9.
• In some rare situations, SSD power cycling may not be accompanied with IDENTIFY. In such case, SMART power cycle count was not increased.
• Fixed the status for SMART Enable/Disable and SMART attribute autosave were changed by power cycling. It will now retain the last change status.
• In some cases, the controller’s buffer memory returned stale data after ATA security erase has been finished.
• Changed word 60 bit 14 to 0, meaning trim is not deterministic for smaller size than 16KB trim request. For SATA Gen 1 setting, Gen 2 support bit is better to be cleared.
• For sleep/standby command, idle time garbage collection is better if it is not started.