Software Update: Intel SSD Data Center Tool 3.0.3

Intel has released an update for its SSD Data Center Tool. This allows you to manage connected drives from Intel’s SSD data center family via a command line. This includes identifying details of NVME and SATA drives, reading smart information, updating SSD firmware, calculating life expectancy, enabling and disabling latency tracking, and adjusting the power governor mode. It can run on Linux and Windows systems, and a release for VMware ESXi hosts is available. For more information, please refer to this manual. Version 3.0.3 includes the following changes:

Version 3.0.3

This release of the tool includes a firmware update for the Intel SSD DC D3700, DC D3600, DC P3700, DC P3600, DC P3608, and DC P3500 Series products. The latest firmware revision is 8DV101H0. The latest boot loader revision is 8B1B0133.

This release of the tool also includes a firmware update for the Intel SSD DC S3710 and DC S3610 Series products. The latest firmware revision is G2010160.

Additionally, this release also includes the following feature changes:

• Optimization to timeout during NVMe* format feature
• Fixes to delete feature – corrected SATA behavior not performing the delete and the NVMe behavior of not checking if drive has partitions.
• Added compatibility with Linux Kernel 4.7 and on.
• Various additional bug fixes

Intel Solid State Drive DC D3700 and D3600 Series
Firmware Revision 8DV101H0, 8B1B0133, 8AP6Z511:

• Multiple PCIe Link Dynamic Equalization updates
• SQ Header Pointer Mismatch fix
• Drive Drop issue under heavy IO testing
• Drive unresponsive during concurrent IO and NVMe-MI Basic Management Commands
• XN022 Assert Fixes
• Sequential read performance improvement at end of life from firmware 8DV101D0

Intel Solid State Drive DC P3700, P3600 and P3500 Series
Firmware Revision 8DV101H0, 8B1B0133:

• XN022 Assert Fixes
• Sequential read performance improvement at end of life from firmware 8DV101F0
• misc. sightings closure and improvement on product health.

Intel Solid State Drive DC P3608 Series
Firmware Revision 8DV101H0, 8B1B0133:

• XN022 Assert Fixes
• Sequential read performance improvement at end of life from firmware 8DV101F0
• misc. sightings closure and improvement on product health.

Intel Solid State Drive DC S3710 and DC S3610
Firmware Revision G2010160:

• This firmware version includes support for the ACS-3 command set.