Back in mid-July, Intel announced the launch of its new 34nm NAND SSDs. The new 34nm technology allowed the drives to offer prices as much as 60% less than previous generation Intel SSDs because the NAND used in the SSDs was cheaper to produce.

The ability to lower prices on the SSDs meant that the drives would be more appealing to consumers looking to get their first SSD to upgrade an existing computer or inside a new computer from Intel partners. About a week after the new 34nm SSDs hit market, Intel confirmed a data corruption issue with the new line.

Intel halted shipments of the new SSDs until it could issue a firmware fix for the problem. The issue was that if the user of one of the SSDs installed a password via the PC BIOS to protect data or limit access and then removed the password, corruption of the data on the drive could occur.

Intel has announced that as of today a firmware repair for the data corruption issue has been mode available for download. The firmware download includes proprietary software and FreeDos reports Intel, and a full readme file detailing the update. The guidelines for the firmware update can be downloaded from Intel (PDF).