New Crucial M4 Firmware (11/4/2012) Version 000F (newer than 0309)
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I have got to say, I am VERY impressed with Crucial moving so quickly on these firmware updates. Fair enough the last one was to fix a count-down-to-death bug but this one less so.
I wouldn't be buying any other drive right now, Crucial are so on the ball.
edit: Just successfully ran the windows updater exe in Windows 8, on my Macbook Pro, and it all worked fine. Top quality *thumbs up*
I wouldn't be buying any other drive right now, Crucial are so on the ball.
edit: Just successfully ran the windows updater exe in Windows 8, on my Macbook Pro, and it all worked fine. Top quality *thumbs up*
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Cheers for pointing this out!
Will get updated straight away!
Will get updated straight away!
Take a read of this..
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18368624
If you're copying big files to the drive then you'll notice the lower write speed. Since Windows generally just saves small files, you're unlikely to notice the lower write speeds.
That thread is a good roundup of many SSD's.
That might explain why I had a boot failure when I tried to update to 0309 using the Windows method?
Just done mine, was nice and easy
Mine was saved to my storage drive and I had no problems
Windows updater fails for me with a boot error, will try a USB stick later.
EDIT: Problem solved, it appears that it cannot cope with running from the desktop (as per the manual) if your desktop is stored on a different drive, running the utility from the root of my c: drive worked perfectly.
EDIT: Problem solved, it appears that it cannot cope with running from the desktop (as per the manual) if your desktop is stored on a different drive, running the utility from the root of my c: drive worked perfectly.
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another thanks from me, I wouldn't of even checked for any futher updates for me SSD, would have thought that last one would have been, well, the last one
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Thanks from me too No probs using the windows updater
No probs using the windows updaterHaving an odd problem then using the Windows updater.
The updater app fails to load on reboot and instead I get a "Windows failed to start" error, followed by a message telling me that grldr.mbr is missing or corrupt.
Got no problems booting normally, just when trying to run the updater. Not found a great deal of information linking this error an the Crucial updater...
The updater app fails to load on reboot and instead I get a "Windows failed to start" error, followed by a message telling me that grldr.mbr is missing or corrupt.
Got no problems booting normally, just when trying to run the updater. Not found a great deal of information linking this error an the Crucial updater...
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Write speed wont have changed much. however a lot (not all) SSDs use compression to increase their write speeds and they always quote the best possible speeds. However if what you're writing to the SSD isn't highly compressible then you wont see the ~500MB/s figures drives like to quote (as I understand it).
Also, can I ask what you'll be reading from that has read speeds so much faster than the M4's write speeds (I believe the larger drives have a faster write speed than the 64GB drive)? And how often will you be writing large amounts of data to the SSD?
Also, thanks to the OP for pointing this out. I wasn't expecting any more firmwares until another big problem had been scaring the forum community.
You probably have your mbr located on your mechanical drive or something like that.
Located on the SSD.
