Intels enterprise-grade reange of solid state hard disk drives as received an important firmware upgrade which now adds support for the "Trim" feature on Windows 7.

Intel Solid State Drive DC S3610 Series Intel Solid State Drive DC S3710 Series If you are a Windows user, you can now take advantage of the Intel SSD Toolbox to perform firmware updates. Learn more.

Intel: Intel SSD Firmware Update Tool will have any outstanding firmware updates. Samsung: Samsung Magician will help you manage your SSDs and deal with firmware updates.

The SSD Firmware Update Guideline is available here. If you need any assistance with the firmware update of experience issues please contact Intel Customer Support.

On Monday Intel released an firmware upgrade for the X25-M solid state drive (SSD). Yesterday, the company pulled the update.

The package included a firmware upgrade and software called SSD Optimizer that included diagnostic tools to help keep the Intel SSD running at high performance.

Intel have yanked their recent X25-M SSD firmware update, after users reported the new software killed Windows 7 installations.

Firmware updates can be hit-or-miss at the best of times, but when an update that promises a 40 per cent increase in speed ends up killing your expensive solid-state drive, you're not going to be ...

Even my 10+ year old Intel 320 SSDs are still supported by the Intel MAS Tool (formerly Intel SSD Toolbox).