TRIM watch

How can I find out what firmware my Crucial 64Gb M225 is using as looks like if it is 1571 then its a straight flash to 1819 but if its 1711 then I have to roll-it back to 1571 first before updating it to 1819.
 
johnerz said:
Mel its booting fron DOS, Win 7 does not get a look in,
you need to try again :0
a bootable usb flash drive unpack the file onto it change the bios to bbot from said usb drive aand all hdd/sdd to ide and it will work, change back after tge boot :)
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It wouldn't boot because it's a SATA DVD writer - used an old PATA DVD drive and it boots.
 
MartinBen said:
How can I find out what firmware my Crucial 64Gb M225 is using as looks like if it is 1571 then its a straight flash to 1819 but if its 1711 then I have to roll-it back to 1571 first before updating it to 1819.
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Crucial Forums said:
It will not say on the SSD drive label you will need to plug it in.

When you run the firmware flasher it will tell you what firmware version is currently on the SSD before flashing proceeds.

(If you received your Crucial SSD in a small brown cardboard box then it's a good chance it will have v1571)



To find out within Windows see device manager screenshot.



Control panel > select device manager > expand disk drives > right click on the drive and select properties

> select details tab > select hardware lds from the drop down menu.
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http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Solid-S...y-what-frimware-is-currently-on-SSD/td-p/5957
 
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I have the Intel 160MB G2 and just tried this (taken from another post in this forum):
"From the copy and paste snippets I have:

Q: "How do I know if TRIM is working in Windows 7?"
A: Go to the Command prompt and type > fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify

DisableDeleteNotify = 1 (Windows TRIM commands are disabled)
DisableDeleteNotify = 0 (Windows TRIM commands are enabled)"

Well according to that TRIM IS enabled- but does that mean it is working on the drive:confused:
 
Im right in thinking i have read on these forums that the intel x25-m 80GB wont require a format when it comes to updating firmware for TRIM support... right? :)
 
Humate said:
Im right in thinking i have read on these forums that the intel x25-m 80GB wont require a format when it comes to updating firmware for TRIM support... right? :)
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At least with the other manufacturers that seems to be the trend, however until Intel release the new firmware we wont know 100%. I'd say its a good bet though.
 
Hi,

i am currently using a 160gb intel g2.
I was wondering if TRIM will keep my drive at top performance? I ask because i have seen peoples benchmark results. A few i've seen i have noticed a dramatic drop in certain areas (especially after a months use, some numbers are nearly 40% lower, mostly in the writes section, but reads suffer a bit too). I was wondering if the TRIM is going to stop that.

Also in preparation for windows 7, i would like to know how i go about wiping my ssd to its original factory state before i install the new OS?

Thanks,

Phil.
 
Sc00p007 said:
Hi,

i am currently using a 160gb intel g2.
I was wondering if TRIM will keep my drive at top performance? I ask because i have seen peoples benchmark results. A few i've seen i have noticed a dramatic drop in certain areas (especially after a months use, some numbers are nearly 40% lower, mostly in the writes section, but reads suffer a bit too). I was wondering if the TRIM is going to stop that.

Also in preparation for windows 7, i would like to know how i go about wiping my ssd to its original factory state before i install the new OS?

Thanks,

Phil.
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TRIM should reduce performance degregation over time.
Good description here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM_(SSD_command)

As for wiping the SSD, this thread might help:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=15096816
 
Thanks for the reply.

Its the "reduce" that people refer to that gets me worried. This makes me think that for some reason, not explained in that wiki description, that the drive will still suffer from reduced performance over time.
From reading that wiki page, i presume TRIM will stop this performance degradation, Whch leaves me wondering what the rest of the degradation will come from.
Im only worried because of the price i paid, and should i have waited till the next gen to see if they can stop the performance degradation alltogether. Im aware of the limited write cycle problem, but this hardware degradation doesnt concern me.

Thanks,

Phil.
 
Seems to say that there will be firmware available and tools to support TRIM under win7 but the links are to old firmware and the tools link is dead.

Under construction ?
 
It is now available to download. It wasnt there at first. What i did was change the language to french, noticed it was there. So then i reverted back to English and it was there, maybe something to do woth browser cache?
http://download.intel.com/design/flash/nand/mainstream/322296.pdf according to this updated data sheet, the 160gb model will also see a boost to sequential write, now upto 100mb/s :)
 
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