Dear Samsung / Dear Community,
I have been doing some research on this topic and only find discussion about encryption basics, like if SW or HW encryption is better. But I feel like my question is something for real IT-Pro's so I try my luck here.
Please only answer / give advice if you have experience with this.
My 990 Pro is currently hardware encrypted and it is used for work (Win11). Setting this up took a lot of effort and I cannot afford to reinstalling OS.
I have done a "in-OS" Acronis Backup, although I have no hope in restoring a HW encrypted drive.. however I have some kind of “Backup”.
So now my question:
1#
Samsung Magician is informing me about some Firmware for my 990Pro and even if it seems some minor issue with folks having the Heatsink version, I would like to understand what the requirements are for me to install the Firmware in general / future?
- just fire it up with the encryption running and it will be fine?
- pause encryption? do the upgrade, then resume encryption?
- un-encrypt drive, do the upgrade, then encrypt the drive again? -> not sure if this is even possible because, I was only possible to enable it during initial Setup...
Question #2
What about Mainboard Firmware UEFI updates, do I also need to pause / resume Encryption when I do those?
Question #3
What if I change my Mainboard/CPU due to an upgrade from the 12700K to 14700K, will this break the encryption if I dont prepair somehow? e.g. do I also need to pause/resume or decrypt & encrypt the drive here again before swapping mainboards to prevent breaking the encrypted OS?
I really think these answers / information should be found in some kind of SSD Q&A or Frequently Asked Questions Section here at Samsung.com…
Any links, Information, or sophisticated advice/guidance. If you are not 100% sure what you are talking about, please do not answer/comment. I do not need any information that is not solid/durable and just theoretical imagination...
Thanks Michael
