Cruicial M4 0009 Firmware Update

richb93 · 5 Oct 2011 at 21:15

Really?! Very weird as they worked for me. Basically UNetbootin emulates a floppy drive on the USB stick and BOOT2880.IMG is just a floppy image. Is your machine set to boot from a USB stick or CD?

Bramill · 5 Oct 2011 at 21:18

i decided to give and so changed my AHCI mode On in bios and booted but forgot to take the usb out and it magically worked lol my firmware is now 0009, great stuff !

richb93 · 5 Oct 2011 at 21:24

Glad to hear you got it sorted, the 0009 firmware makes a big difference!

Bramill · 5 Oct 2011 at 21:30

just did a bench here's the result, didn't do a before bench sorry

should i be using the intel rapid storage technology drivers?

lee20010 · 5 Oct 2011 at 21:42

Why is my drive so much slower?

Amidar · 5 Oct 2011 at 22:12

lee20010 said:
Why is my drive so much slower?

If it's write speeds that you are talking about it's because your drive is a 64GB model the 128GB,256Gb & 512GB have much higher write speeds.

lee20010 · 5 Oct 2011 at 22:18

Any major jump in performance ?

Amidar · 5 Oct 2011 at 22:28

lee20010 said:
Any major jump in performance ?

Write speeds mean next to nothing as it's the read speeds that count, and all M4 models have the same read speeds.

mikeo · 6 Oct 2011 at 17:34

Bramill said:
should i be using the intel rapid storage technology drivers?

Though I obviously have a different make of SSD to you ... In my personal experience, it doesn't make a huge difference (though others may disagree). I left mine using the default drivers that W7 installs and I get pretty near identical results to folks using the latest Intel RST drivers.

gazjones105 · 7 Oct 2011 at 09:51

this is mine. running on a z68xp-ud4 using sata 3.0

COYS · 8 Oct 2011 at 00:48

Do new drives, ie being delivered tomorrow, have this new firmware on them?

Deaco · 8 Oct 2011 at 00:54

COYS said:
Do new drives, ie being delivered tomorrow, have this new firmware on them?

Got mine this morning, and it seems to have the new Firmware - not stuck it in my system yet.. but is printed on the disk.

COYS · 8 Oct 2011 at 00:59

excellent, thank you. Just in case I thought I'd download it anyway but fingers crossed

BeeP · 8 Oct 2011 at 10:14

Mine had the 002 firmware on it, as said earlier it is so easy to update it's not worth worrying about.

COYS · 8 Oct 2011 at 12:28

Looks like it's got the latest firmware according to the disc label. Can't wait to see how it compares to my old Intel SATA2.

Meloco · 8 Oct 2011 at 16:10

COYS said:
Looks like it's got the latest firmware according to the disc label. Can't wait to see how it compares to my old Intel SATA2.

Is there anyway to check without looking at the physical disk, e.g. Software to say what firmware you are on? I only just got my crucial M4 2 days ago (thurs).

richb93 · 8 Oct 2011 at 16:12

Meloco said:
Is there anyway to check without looking at the physical disk, e.g. Software to say what firmware you are on? I only just got my crucial M4 2 days ago (thurs).

Run the updater and it will tell you the current firmware.

Tripnologist · 8 Oct 2011 at 17:18

I received mine yesterday and it had the 009 firmware on it.

Troezar · 8 Oct 2011 at 18:22

Just got around to installing this update, seems a decent increase in performance. Well worth doing

COYS · 8 Oct 2011 at 22:05

Meloco said:
Is there anyway to check without looking at the physical disk, e.g. Software to say what firmware you are on? I only just got my crucial M4 2 days ago (thurs).

yep, if you run CrystalDiskInfo it will tell you. if it says 0009 then its the latest