Upgrading Kingston SSD firmware in Ubuntu?

I'm having problems with my second Kingston SSD in the past few years.

The folks here have raised the possibility that I might need to update the firmware.

I'm about to buy a new SSD and reinstall the whole system, so it's worth a shot.

I see that Kingston does maintain an SSD Manager but that it's only available for Windows. I had no luck using Wine and can't currently get a Windows 10 ISO to load onto VMWare.

Does anybody know of any other way to upgrade the firmware?

SSD Manager - kingston.com

Solution 1:

Kingston's utility to update SSD firware on Sandforce based drives, created by James Huey https://gitlab.com/vinibali/kingston_fw_updater

And short manual: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg7NTqmWxAk