I bought a used ThinkCentre M75q tiny desktop computer through kijiji.
I upgraded the RAM and disk.
For a disk, I bought a WD Black SN770 2TB NVMe drive.
I've installed it and installed Fedora Linux on it. All fine.
I don't know that much about management of NVME drives. They mostly just
work. But I got curious about firmware updates.
- WD only supports firmware updates through Windows or MacOS!
- this machine has no Windows license (surprising but true) or
installation. Less surprising, it has no MacOS license or installation.
- there seems to have been a firmware update a while back (some reddit
queries about it five months ago).
- My unit is probably new enough that it came with that new firmware. How
to check?
- this article points to an NVMe tool for linux:
https://opensource.com/article/21/9/nvme-cli
- nvme-cli works and seems useful but I don't really know how to read the
output. It does say "frmw : 0x14" which might contain the required
information.
- When I try to log in to WD support, they say that I must change my
password (their site must have been compromised since I last logged in).
When I OK that, they say that they have emailed me a link but it does
not arrive.
How frustrating.
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