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Just so you know

Install the 070H firmware i know it's not new but the difference it's made to my ssd from 070F is massive!

it feels like a new drive again :)
 
on their website using the exe. it does it all for you~

http://uk.crucial.com/gbr/en/support-ssd

download the updater application and run it it will reboot your PC flash the firmware and reboot your PC if you have two drives it will do both or one if the other is already done.
 
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The bit that worries me about doing this is this on the site :

"WARNING: The firmware update process is done entirely at your own risk. Before initiating the update process be sure to backup or make copies of all important files. If the firmware process is interrupted your solid-state drive may not function properly."


:) :) :)

But I did it anyway .... all good :)
 
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Define massive. I've got a 128GB M4 that's half full & on fairly acient firmware and I can't say that I've noticed any performance degradation in the time that I've had it.
 
Damn I must have installed it when it came out since I'm already running it. Was hoping for a miracle heh.
 
I'm back :D Definitely a lot faster. Awesome!

Looks like my old firmware was from 2012, well overdue! It's only in my laptop though.
 
I should have done a before and after bench!

But it's doing well, hitting SATA2 limits in a 4 year old laptop.

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Couldn't get the Windows installer to detect my drive, had to use the bootable disk method. Pretty sure it did work when I updated it last time however...

Went from 000F on my 64GB M4. Might've been because I got the smallest, but I don't see much difference:

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On the other hand I found a screenshot of an older benchmark I did back in June 2011, read speed was only up to 450MB, so I guess even after 3 years this M4 is still very snappy.

SSDLife says drive is 97% health but the expected lifetime seems to have went up by a couple of years compared to when I checked about a month after I got the drive...
 
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Oh dear, I think it bricked my M4. I did not reboot last night as all was working fine. Now PC won't boot and the m4 cannot be seen in the bios. :(
 
If the above doesn't work you could always try an RMA, best RMA experience i've had was with my M4. 3 working days from sending it i had a replacement in my hands. Although, i didn't brick mine with a firmware update :p
 
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Oh dear, I think it bricked my M4. I did not reboot last night as all was working fine. Now PC won't boot and the m4 cannot be seen in the bios. :(
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Disconnect all other drives including any usb connected drives and card readers and do a cold re-start

I had the same issue and it then came up and I shut down and connected my other drives and all is fine.
 
We'll it is back up and running. Not really sure how. I was so annoyed I just left my PC running with a black screen and went downstairs for a couple of hours. Just came back up and was faced with the Win8 log in screen. Just rebooted again and it appears to be working fine.
 
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