have done it many times on many different SSD's and never had an issue

It's possible but unlikely.

I've never lost data with a firmware update. Take a backup first of course, before any kind of maintenance work.

However, your backups should assume your house / workplace can burn down at any time and you should have sufficient offsite backups that you don't lose more data than you're comfortable with.

As others have noted, this should't normally cause data loss, but there is always the possibility. I've done at least a dozen SSD firmware updates without issue myself.

Batman: The question is, do you need to update the firmware?

Exactly. Read the changelog for the update and see if any of it affects you. Many times they might fix problems that only happen on certain hardware or in certain situations, neither of which might apply to your set up.

One of my first SSD's always did destructive firmware updates (never retained drive data), but all of my more recent ones have kept data intact.

Jase2985:

 

have done it many times on many different SSD's and never had an issue

 

Except for the one time you don't make a backup first :)

surfisup1000:

 

Jase2985:

 

have done it many times on many different SSD's and never had an issue

 

 

 

 

Except for the one time you don't make a backup first :)

 

 

 

same as anything really though, weigh up the options and time to do that vs the risk

thanks for the info its a ScanDisk SSD Plus 240GB

and yes i all ways back up

only the os is on the ssd drive

I just dont want to reinstall the os maybe in the weekend