Accelerate SSD in Acer Aspire One A110 netbook

Recently, Acer has released a new firmware for the SSD of this netbook. As you know, this drive has extremely low speed, and the updated firmware is designed to improve the situation.

Since I have a netbook of such a model, I immediately decided to check the new firmware in action.

No, we will not disassemble anything today. Everything is very simple.
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Attention! The firmware only works for Samsung SSD. Before you begin, make sure that your drive is installed in your Aspire One A110.

In addition, the data on the SSD-drive after the firmware will be lost . Save!

So, first you need to prepare. We will need the following components:

1. Acer Aspire One A110 netbook with Samsung SSD.
2. Preferably a computer with Windows installed (in my case, under VirtualBox).
3. USB flash drive.
4. Utility from Acer to create a boot disk.
5. HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool , if necessary.

AOA110SSDFWv1.exe is used to prepare the flash drive, however, in my case it was not enough, and I had to ask for help from an HP utility that can create a bootable flash drive.

Well. Boot from the flash drive.


Click 0, since the firmware version is newer than the old one. Without erasing - no way.


0 again.


Well, here there is no other choice :)


I have 8GB SSD. Shake that suits.


In the main window of the update program, press Enter and wait for the cherished green " PASS " to appear (I, however, had “FAIL”, but decided to re-scan by pressing the “ D ” button).

After flashing and restoring my Linux, I noticed that Firefox did start up much faster.
And the output " hdparm -it / dev / sda " tells me about 40MB / sec .

In general, the system began to run much faster. Waiting for Windows users to test in popular HD Tune and CrystalDiskMark.