Crucial M4, Slow?

Bezzaboy1234 · 17 Mar 2012 at 19:43

Hi Guys,

So managed to replace my crappy OCZ Vertex 2 40GB after it died on me again -.-

Been using the M4 64GB for a few days now, Checked the AS SSD and ATTO benchmarks and it isnt getting great scores, Is it me or is there something I can do to fix it?

Cheers

Bezzaboy1234 · 19 Mar 2012 at 22:01

Using Sata III with 6GB/S Cable same As what My previous SSD was In, AHCI enabled in Bios

Bezzaboy1234 · 20 Mar 2012 at 16:08

Okay, I'll Check that and the Firmware update

Bezzaboy1234 · 20 Mar 2012 at 16:54

Here's the test with it plugged into the gray SATA ports (whoops! didn't know they were the 6GB/s Ports =P)

Bezzaboy1234 · 20 Mar 2012 at 16:55

Also I cannot seem to be able to do the Firmware upgrade,
I Download the thing for windows, It shuts down and reboots, the thing gets to "finding drives..." and just sits there, its been there for like 10/15 minutes, so I restarted back into windows, Any thoughts? should I try using the bootable media option rather than the windows 7 download?

Bezzaboy1234 · 20 Mar 2012 at 16:56

PiKe said:
That's better but install the iastor drivers for the intel controller.

iastor drivers??

Bezzaboy1234 · 20 Mar 2012 at 16:59

cmndr_andi said:
Looks good.

Now I would suggest you update your firmware to 0309. As mentioned above, it won't increase your performance, but the 0009 has an issue where after ~5200 hours of use (~7 months) it will crash your system every hour. The 0309 firmware fixes this problem.

To update the firmware you may need to run it on the standard blue Intel SATAII ports.

So not the Gray ones, or the marvell ones but the other ones?
Okay, I'll give that a shot aswell

Bezzaboy1234 · 20 Mar 2012 at 17:45

Ok, tried the M4 in the light blue ports, still gets stuck at "Finding drives.."

Any thoughts?

Bezzaboy1234 · 20 Mar 2012 at 20:50

matty114 said:
My first link and enable write caching and turn off write cache buffer flushing for more speed.

How do I do that?

Bezzaboy1234 · 22 Mar 2012 at 18:30

After the write caching enabled and firmware update, and in the right 6Gb/s port =)