Crucial SSD

Renton · 19 Apr 2010 at 22:47

Hi All
I bought a Crucial CT64GBFAA0 a few months ago and it has started to slow up. I read through some of the posts on this forum and it advises updating the firmware, so i went to the Crucial website and the only drive on the firmware updates is the CT64M225

My question is are these the same drives & is the firmware compatable?

Thanks

Renton

rocketman · 20 Apr 2010 at 00:11

Hi, no the drives are different, and the firmware not compatible. To the best of my knowledge, no firmware has been released for the CT64GBFAA0

NinjaCool · 20 Apr 2010 at 08:35

The Crucial CT64GBFAA0 is an old Generation 1 SSD ( i hope you got this 1 cheap!) from around 2008 I believe that does not have TRIM and possible no Garbage Collection which would explain why your drive is slowing down noticeable. Since no firmware exists that adds TRIM for the drive (or any other G1 SSD I think) and it seems Crucial has not implemented GC collection in a firmware update, i can only think of using "Tony Trim" which should help speed the drive up on any Generation 1 SSD without TRIM/GC Support.

Read about it.
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=64753

Renton · 20 Apr 2010 at 19:40

Typical that I buy an unsupported drive

Thanks for the information guys i will try Tony Trim

Troezar · 20 Apr 2010 at 19:47

Lol Tony Trim sounds like a barber