Crucial firmware update - if you dare!

1819 after only windows 7 install using crystaldisk
Read Write
229.1 | 137.4
164.7 | 123.9
26.95 | 16.85

1916 Tonight, straight after flash and boot
Read Write
226.4 | 141.6
163.6 | 134.9
30.39 | 17.04

Looking good but im not exactly an expert on the numbers
 
Guys,

Need your advice please - I have a 64GB M225 that I'm about to install Win 7 on. I heard about this being in the pipeline and thus have been waiting, but have no idea how to do this! It's in a new build pc so how do I go about backing up the existing firmware and installing this please, do I need to connect it to my laptop to do so?

Cheers,

Paul.
 
Finally, probably won't make a whole heck of a lot of difference at all, but been needing a windows reinstall, a nice fresh non pooped up install of win 7 on my raid 0 crucials. Been putting it off and off as the GC firmware was always rumoured to be just round the corner.

Though, unless there was some massive degredation on the first install of windows, my results from fresh install till now, like 3-4 months later, same numbers entirely. Though windows does do a lot of unpacking and moving of files so its conceivable performance hasn't been what it should be since day one. Its still miles, and miles ahead of mechanical hd results with 30mb/s random 4kb writes, where my raided normal drives would get maybe 1mb/s, if lucky.
 
Sorry but what does this mean - how do I do it?

I have no IDE driaves anywhere near my system so on a clean build, how do I update this firmware? I've had a look on the Crucial Website and to be honest its not the most helpful and non confusing instructions I've ever seen...

Thanks,
 
I installed the 1916 firmware on my CT128M225 in the early hours of this morning although it took me longer than I expected as I couldn't get the USB memory stick method to work then the CD would boot but return an error. I finally got it working off the USB memory stick and the actual flashing of the firmware was over in the blink of an eye; it really was that quick.

When I rebooted, Windows installed the drivers for SSD again and asked me to reboot. For the hour I was using it before work it seemed to be working fine although I haven't personally seen any significant speed improvements. BootTimer still returns 25 seconds to boot into Windows 7 and my W.E.I. score for the drive is still 6.9. I have been running C_Wiper twice a week though so I didn't suffer from the performance degradation that others have been reporting with the 1819 firmware.

Crucial really do need to release some kind to tool kit a la Intel so we can check the drive is working properly with TRIM and garbage collection as well as reporting the correct SMART values, which most third-party software doesn't (it uses the HDD assignments).
 
The new update wasn't out to increase read times, so your boot time wouldn't be any better than it was! They did the update to increase the write speeds back, as the 1819 firmware decreased the write speeds.
 
I have updated my 128gb drive from 1571 to 1916 after small problem getting the utility to run. The problem was SSDCHK error and stemmed from my motherboard having on board usb memory used for ASAP which is seen as a drive. Disabling the ASAP drive in bios and then running the utility worked fine. I guess it is drive letter sensitive.
CrystalDiskMark shows 218.4/149.0 seq, 154.4/138.7 512k, 25.71/15.48 4k. Drive hasn't had a wiper run so far.
 
gizmoy2k said:
Had the same problem here, i had to set my bios back to sata to detect it (disable ahci)
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Still no dice, im not a happy bunny everything set back to ide and still won't pick the drive up, tried it on another computer which doesn't even support ahci and yet still not detected ffs.

Im not a happy bunny and im thinking of having it rma'ed.
 
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