Hello biabwriter. In thirty years of building my own computers, I never updated firmware of a hard drive. Perhaps I'm still not understanding your question. Please try again, expanding it a little and leaving nothing basic out, just so we're clear. Also, you replied to Carlos and asked him about his Seagate SSD, but Carlos does not have a SSD. I do, but as I mentioned, it is an Intel brand.

Hi Carlos. I did a complete upgrade to Windows 7 Pro 64-bit (once I had drivers for all my sound stuff), and I put it on an Intel 180 GB SSD drive.
The difference in boot time was amazing, and the read speed is so much faster it's hard to believe. I know there are less expensive SSD drives than Intel, and faster-rated ones, but I have an Intel motherboard and I liked the Trim utility that came with the drive. Trim support is essential in an SSD drive to keep it from slowing down after repeated writes and deletes.

My data is still on regular hard drives. My understanding is that SSD drives are excellent for reading data, but not as great a difference for writing. That's why I used it for the operating system and programs, where much more reading than writing is needed.

BIAB 2025 Win Audiophile. Software: Studio One 7 Pro, Swam horns, Acoustica-7, Notion 6, Song Master Pro, Win 11 Home. Hardware: Intel i9, 32 Gb; Roland Integra-7, Presonus 192 & Faderport 8, Royer 121, Adam Sub8 & Neumann 120 monitors.