Cruicial M4 0009 Firmware Update

Duke · 16 Sep 2011 at 17:18

Such a good drive

manishpatel80 · 17 Sep 2011 at 13:30

robgmun said:
So i'm stuck, the M4 i have installed works great and i have no problems. But it's on 0002 and my Bios only have options for ACHI or RAID. Is there a work around?

PS - i get 7.4 on mine as well.

My motherboard has the ide mode, but I did not change it from ahci to ide and the update from 0002 to 0009 worked in ahci mode, booted from a cd-rw

I have the intel Sata 3 and I get a max speed of 545mb/s read in atto and about 190mb/s in writes.

Windows index of 7.9

Nick1881 · 17 Sep 2011 at 15:12

My Read speed seems a bit slow compared to others.

Brand new drive, fresh W7 install, X58 Mobo with Marvel controller. I haven't changed any drivers, do I need to?

Broken Hope · 17 Sep 2011 at 15:16

Marvel controller is crap, but you need to switch to AHCI mode, which will probably require the registry edit since you already installed Windows.

Andromeda1983 · 17 Sep 2011 at 15:18

The Marvell SATA3 controller is pretty poor and you wont get the full speed out of the drives with that.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CC-004-SR

A separate SATA3 card will help

Broken Hope · 17 Sep 2011 at 15:22

Andromeda1983 said:
The Marvell SATA3 controller is pretty poor and you wont get the full speed out of the drives with that.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CC-004-SR

A separate SATA3 card will help

That card has a Marvel controller on it..

Nick1881 · 17 Sep 2011 at 15:23

Already in AHCI mode. Should have researched more before I bought this mobo (Asus P6X58D-E)

Oh well, still nice speed.

Andromeda1983 · 17 Sep 2011 at 15:39

Ouch didnt notice it had a marvell controller

(the pci-e card that is)

manishpatel80 · 17 Sep 2011 at 16:03

Andromeda1983 said:
Ouch didnt notice it had a marvell controller (the pci-e card that is)

I upgraded my motherboard, CPU and Ram to the Asus P8Z68-V PRO Z68 Socket 1155, Core i7 2600k and 8gb ram. Had a buyer for my old system. I had the asus u3s6 card before in an x16 slot. I only got about 425mb/s max read speed.

Now with the intel sata 3 I get 545mb/s read.

But I have to say both were very fast, I did not notice much different in the speed apps load from the SSD.

So I would say if you can sell you old system parts then get the intel Sata 3 or if you are upgrading from a very old system then get intel.

But if you already have a good spec system say core 2 dual/quad or similar with only sata 2 then get the asus card it gives you two usb3 ports and two non raid sata 3 ports. This will give you much faster speeds then the sata 2 ports.

Not worth spending so much just to get 100mb/s extra on max read speeds as most of the time you will not be reading apps over 400mb will you?
Therefore 400mb/s max read is more then enough.

ChrisD. · 17 Sep 2011 at 16:13

Before:

After:

Had no idea new firmware was out, so quite happy.

Nick1881 · 17 Sep 2011 at 16:30

Turns out I hadn't set Marvel interface to AHCI, now I have close to 400mb/s.

Quite happy with that TBH.

Broken Hope · 17 Sep 2011 at 18:51

Nick1881 said:
Turns out I hadn't set Marvel interface to AHCI, now I have close to 400mb/s.

Quite happy with that TBH.

It was pretty obvious to see you weren't in AHCI despite what you originally said, because your 4K QD32 results were no different from your normal 4K results.

cammy5477 · 17 Sep 2011 at 19:51

Nick1881 said:
Turns out I hadn't set Marvel interface to AHCI, now I have close to 400mb/s.

Quite happy with that TBH.

yeah that's what im getting too...crappy Marvell controller :mad:

still rapid at 400mb though

Ewaf · 18 Sep 2011 at 01:49

I was thinking of getting this HDD, but is it worth it with my mobo?

Asus M4A79XTD EVO:

SB750 Chipset
1 xUltraDMA 133/100/66 for up to 2 PATA devices
6 xSATA 3 Gb/s ports Support RAID 0,1,5,10,JBOD
Marvell 88SE6121 SATA controller
1 xInternal SATA 3Gb/s port(black)
1 xExternal SATA 3Gb/s port (SATA on-the-go)

Don't you need a 6GB/s SATA port? I'm surprised the mobo doesn't tbh

ChrisD. · 18 Sep 2011 at 07:26

It'll work, just not at full speed.

wesley · 18 Sep 2011 at 08:15

i got gigabyte P55M-UD2 http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3287#ov

will this drive be ok with this motherboard? i need upgrade from tiny 64GB SSD

Gee · 18 Sep 2011 at 13:26

Took the plunge last night and ordered a 128 M4, should come Monday!

Ewaf · 18 Sep 2011 at 13:43

MilanoChris said:
It'll work, just not at full speed.

What kind of speed would I be looking at? Will I still notice a big difference over my normal HDD?

ChrisD. · 18 Sep 2011 at 15:08

Ewaf said:
What kind of speed would I be looking at? Will I still notice a big difference over my normal HDD?

I'm not sure what speed SATAII will limit it at, however you will still notice a massive difference in speed IMO.

Luke · 18 Sep 2011 at 17:05

I've got two 64Gb M4's. One in my desktop/server and one in my laptop. Both are only Sata-II.
They are vastly faster than the mechanical HDD's that were in them before.

I've just upgraded the firmware to 0009 and although it's not a real world benchmark the Windows score for the HDD on the laptop jumped from 5.9 up to 7.7!