I just received a Dell XPS 8700 with a Samsung PM851 256GB SSD drive... when I was looking through the various support.dell.com files sure enough there is a SSD Firmware update but it is dated June of last year. I confirmed that the currently installed Firmware is indeed the prior version so my Dell SSD is already out of date. Great.
Upon doing futher research I also found that the Samsung Magician software does not fully recognize the drive... all it can do is benchmark the SSD which is pretty lame seeing as how this is a Samsung drive. Ugh.
After reading even MORE I found that there is a Samsung Restoration program that alleviates the slowness in the PM851 and increases performance quite a bit. Like... A LOT. I read somewhere that the PM851 is actually based off of the 840 EVO, not sure if that is correct or not?
Even if I update my Firmware to the latest version I don't think I can run the performance restoration software. When I installed the restoration app it says the drive is not supported even though it was written for the PM851 specifically.
What gives Dell???