Crucial c300 refurbished 30 day warranty!

zoomee · 30 Aug 2011 at 11:57

I've got a 128gb model already, didn't really need one but the offer was just too good - bought a 64Gb one - either for a mate at work, or for my work laptop lol

MooMoo444 · 30 Aug 2011 at 12:23

30 days warranty shows they don't have much faith in them :s

If it was me I'd avoid, good luck on yours lasting

Westyfield2 · 30 Aug 2011 at 14:22

They're nice and cheap... but the warranty does scare me.

Maybe just get the 64GB to stick a few steam games on?

Avalon · 30 Aug 2011 at 17:34

It depends on the intended use, mission critical and underpinning my work/business then i'd choose something intel. On my personal rig for the odd game, a bit of encoding, Corel etc. I don't have a problem with a drive going down as a re-image from a WHS backup takes minutes and at worst I loose nothing of value. If the drive dies out of warranty i'll argue SOGA within reason but other than that it's a reasonably quick SSD with a low cost per GB from a reasonable manufacturer. I suspect a lot of this is failed f/w upgrades, DSR returns etc. but I do understand peoples reservations about the length of the warranty.

droyden · 31 Aug 2011 at 20:49

I got one and stuck it in my laptop, came with fw 007 and checked ssdlife which was 100% and 1 power on count. so far so good

spleenharvester · 31 Aug 2011 at 20:58

IIRC someone mentioned something about faulty SSDs often needing JTAG'ing and resetting. Probably that.

Justintime · 31 Aug 2011 at 22:04

Got a 256gb one, would have ideally wanted a 128 but they're sold out on the 128 and 64 lol.

DrBombcrater · 1 Sep 2011 at 09:42

spleenharvester said:
IIRC someone mentioned something about faulty SSDs often needing JTAG'ing and resetting. Probably that.

Yeah, that's probably what's happened to these drives. The early C300 firmware had a nasty habit of bricking the drive for no obvious reason. There's bound to a lot of physically perfect drives that were RMA'd back to Crucial and just need a re-flash to being them back to life.

I'm confident enough in this theory that I bought a 256GB refub. So far it's working fine

gazzer_21 · 1 Sep 2011 at 10:29

Crucial might be able to bring them back to life by re-flashing/ re-setting them,
The problem is after 30 days they won't do it again.
some might go on forever some might not make it to the 30 days.
I think they are now M4's rather than c300's to protect the brand,
just call me a sceptic

DrBombcrater · 1 Sep 2011 at 11:03

The firmware bug that caused the bricking has been fixed, so it shouldn't be an issue. Very few problems reported with the C300 these days, it seems to have matured into a solid, reliable drive.

CreAtiv3 · 2 Sep 2011 at 16:41

I've not gotten round to installing it yet but my 128gb drive arrived a few days ago. By the looks of things it was originally on firmware 2 but someone has written 6 beside it.

Is 6 the latest? Is it worth flashing to the latest if not?

Moothead2 · 2 Sep 2011 at 16:48

CreAtiv3 said:
I've not gotten round to installing it yet but my 128gb drive arrived a few days ago. By the looks of things it was originally on firmware 2 but someone has written 6 beside it.

Is 6 the latest? Is it worth flashing to the latest if not?

Looks as if 0007 is the latest; http://www.crucial.com/support/firmware.aspx

I'd recommend doing it, Crucials latest for the M4 gave it an increase of around 80-100mb/s sequential speeds. Not saying every firmware update does this, it may not increase speed at all, but read the release notes and they should tell you.