Crucial ssd

mr griffin · 16 Feb 2010 at 22:49

After a bit of advice if anyone can help. just ordered up a Crucial M225

. Am I right in thinking that these support trim and will it automatically work out the box on Windows 7 or will I need to flash or something. Any help or advice would be very gratefully received.

cainer · 16 Feb 2010 at 22:56

quote from a review...

Reviewed by: Wayne (Banbury)

Got one of these to install W7 HP 64-bit on to.

Make sure the drive has the latest firmware (1819 available from Crucial's website) on it and W7 will use TRIM to keep it in tip-top shape.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-002-CR&tool=3

no_sleep_til · 16 Feb 2010 at 23:06

the newest firmware is 1916... crucial firmware page

mr griffin · 16 Feb 2010 at 23:06

Great thanks for that. I had a feeling it did support trim somehow

lets hope I notice some difference from my 300gb VelociRaptor

Oh any chance you can screw the drive up flashing it?

no_sleep_til · 16 Feb 2010 at 23:12

i suppose it is possible, but i didn't have any problems

i did it from the iso, burnt onto cd. prior to installing windows

Cosimo · 16 Feb 2010 at 23:25

mr griffin said:
Great thanks for that. I had a feeling it did support trim somehow lets hope I notice some difference from my 300gb VelociRaptor

Oh any chance you can screw the drive up flashing it?

You should ok unless you stop the update or cut the power during the process.

1916 is now official so ignore the unofficial comments:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18101939

Crucial forum:

http://www.forum.crucial.com/t5/Solid-State-Drives-SSD/bd-p/ssd

Baboonanza · 17 Feb 2010 at 09:51

The only problem I had is that at first the update wouldn't find the drive. This was fixed by changing the driver from AHCI to IDE in the BIOS. I think you get the best results running in AHCI though so remember to change it back.

After that everything was fine. If you've been using the drive before updating you probably want to run the Crucial Wiper tool after updating to make sure it gets all the missing Trim instructions.

mr griffin · 18 Feb 2010 at 19:47

any way of seeing what firmware has come pre installed on the drive?.

no_sleep_til · 18 Feb 2010 at 21:13

at the first boot-up screen...where the connected IDE devices are named. the firmware version is displayed next to the crucial drive details....
eg, "CrucialCT64 1819"...

hopefully that sounds clearer than it reads

mr griffin · 18 Feb 2010 at 21:53

yip all done have flashed it now cheers m8. Sorry to keep asking questions but I was going to use the Crucial Wiper tool but it says next to it only supported by xp and vista. I'm running w7 64 so does that mean I really shouldnt try it and use it?.

Showboat · 18 Feb 2010 at 22:06

Pretty sure with the new firmware and w7 thats it's done automatically, just upgraded from 1819 to 1916 and it has increased my performance by a lot.

1819 read write
Seq 119 36
4k 15 4
4k-64 27 4
acc 0.246 0.997
score 55 13
overall 99

1916 read write
seq 166 97
4k 19 5
4k-64 28 4
acc 0.191 0.749
score 64 20
overall 122

mr griffin · 19 Feb 2010 at 22:23

answering my own question here just in case anyone needed to know.. you can tell what firmware ur running if u run AS SSD