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Intermittent Technology
Personal blog · blog.quindorian.orghardwaresystems
Intermittent Technology is a personal blog at blog.quindorian.org about hardware and systems. Since 2019, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Update Firmware of Samsung SSDs in Linux”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link its posts as how-to sources: a guide to updating Samsung SSD firmware via a Linux updater, and a Home Assistant post about $10 WiFi energy meters. No comment judges the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Intermittent Technology blog by Quindor with lots of different subjects such as ESP8266, ESP32, IP cameras, LANparties and much more!
Most-linked posts?
- Update Firmware of Samsung SSDs in Linux4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-03-16
What Hacker News says?
I'm just getting started with Home Assistant and been busy with $10 wifi energy meters: https://blog.quindorian.org/2019/02/home-assistant-10-wifi-e...
Comment linking /2019/02/home-assistant-10-wifi-energy-meter-with-esphome.html/
on “Nest, the company, died at Google I/O 2019”Submitted Update Firmware of Samsung SSDs in Linux as a story · 212 points
HN discussionI think I managed to upgrade the firmware from within Kubuntu (it wasn't the OS Nvme) by using this method https://blog.quindorian.org/2021/05/firmware-update-samsung-... I've done it some months ago, so I don't remember if it was that one exactly. I'm now relieved to know that 5B2QGXA7 is still the current one.
Comment linking /2021/05/firmware-update-samsung-ssd-in-linux.html/
on “Update on Samsung SSD Reliability”I now found and followed this: https://blog.quindorian.org/2021/05/firmware-update-samsung-... And it seems to have worked. After extracting this updater tool and running it, smartctl kept showing the old firmware version (3B2QGXA7), but after reboot it now shows the new version (5B2QGXA7). I took the risk of running this while the OS (Archlinux) was running with the disk mounted (this is the OS install disk), and a…
Comment linking /2021/05/firmware-update-samsung-ssd-in-linux.html/
on “Update on Samsung SSD Reliability”You can simply extract the firmware updater binary from the iso and run it directly from your own linux pc. More complicated if you only have a single drive though. https://blog.quindorian.org/2021/05/firmware-update-samsung-...
Comment linking /2021/05/firmware-update-samsung-ssd-in-linux.html/
on “Fake Samsung 980 Pro SSDs Are Spreading Around”