Cruicial M4 0009 Firmware Update

Ewaf · 18 Sep 2011 at 17:58

Ok guys, thanks for the advice

sopran2 · 18 Sep 2011 at 19:05

I am trying to find out how big will be improvement in speeds if i will put m4 128gb drive in my MSI GX660R 15.6" WLED TFT Intel I5-460M, 6GB DDR3, 1TB HDD (2x500gb in raid0), ATI HD 5870 1GB GDDR5 laptop.
My sequencial read speeds from raid0 are only 104 MB/s at the moment. How much aprox. i will get with M4 upgrade?

Nemeses · 18 Sep 2011 at 20:12

Got one myself ordered it a couple hours ago

.. OcUk best price for them as well

bonus

Luke · 18 Sep 2011 at 21:25

sopran2 said:
I am trying to find out how big will be improvement in speeds if i will put m4 128gb drive in my MSI GX660R 15.6" WLED TFT Intel I5-460M, 6GB DDR3, 1TB HDD (2x500gb in raid0), ATI HD 5870 1GB GDDR5 laptop.
My sequencial read speeds from raid0 are only 104 MB/s at the moment. How much aprox. i will get with M4 upgrade?

I'm getting 237MB/s from my single 64Gb M4 in my older Sony Vaio which is only SATA-II so I'd imagine your speeds would be greater still.
That's not even factoring in that you'd RAID them!

Culinia · 18 Sep 2011 at 22:08

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

009; M4 256GB; SATAII; EVGA x58

Andromeda1983 · 20 Sep 2011 at 15:28

I am preparing to raid my 2 x 64's with 0009 firmware as we speak, ill post benchy's later

yer_averagejoe · 20 Sep 2011 at 16:54

Bought a 128GB one of these a few weeks ago and they seem to have dropped massively in price! Oh well

Quick question though: I've got it installed in my netbook (HP mini 311c - Atom 270) and the 4k speeds seem slow, even with all C-states disabled in my BIOS. I'll post a bench up later but off the top of my head, they're around 16 read/22 write in CrystalDiskMark. Its a Sata II controller and the processor is perhaps a little slow to get the full juice out of this thing but surely I could get it running a bit better?

It certainly feels fast, but at the end of the day, no-one can ignore a benchmark

Does anyone else happen to be running one of these in a 311?

Edit: It's running 0009, too.

Edit2: SS of a bench;

Bucko89 · 20 Sep 2011 at 20:29

Going to buy one of these in a few weeks, should I buy 2 64gb and have one for the OS and the other for games, or just get the 128gb?

MrChops · 20 Sep 2011 at 21:22

Bucko89 said:
Going to buy one of these in a few weeks, should I buy 2 64gb and have one for the OS and the other for games, or just get the 128gb?

I could be wrong but I think the 128 write speed is better than the 64? As we don't defrag these things I can't think of a good performance reason to have 2 rather than 1. Of course, if one dies you still have the other and you don't lose everything. And a 128 should be cheaper GB/£ than 2x64s

Andromeda1983 · 20 Sep 2011 at 22:20

I was able to get the 2 x 64GB M4 Raid up and running in a RAID-0 Array and below are the results. (Stripe Size was 32KB)

System:

i2500k CPU running at 4.2Ghz overclocked (stock volts)
2 x 64GB Crucial M4 SSD's running firmware 0009
8GB Kingston PC10666 DDR3 Ram (HyperX Blu)
Gigabyte SoC GTX460 1GB Graphics Card
MSI P67-G45 B3 Motherboard running latest beta bios.
Antex TX650W Power Supply
Antec 300 Case

gwobbles · 21 Sep 2011 at 01:02

do these speeds look ok?

TFC · 21 Sep 2011 at 11:04

They do indeed...

gwobbles · 21 Sep 2011 at 12:36

thanks a lot

mohoshin · 24 Sep 2011 at 12:53

I purchased the 64gb version after my vertex 2 gave me a bsod !
I have updated the firmware on the day i received the ssd. My write speed does not seem to be around 180 -200 that most people are getting, i am on around 105.
Read speed is around 514.

Any ideas what is with the slow write speeds?

Broken Hope · 24 Sep 2011 at 15:14

mohoshin said:
I purchased the 64gb version after my vertex 2 gave me a bsod !
I have updated the firmware on the day i received the ssd. My write speed does not seem to be around 180 -200 that most people are getting, i am on around 105.
Read speed is around 514.

Any ideas what is with the slow write speeds?

Those speeds are normal for the 64GB drive.

Yannic · 24 Sep 2011 at 17:56

would i notice an upgrade in speed with my m4 256gb connected on Sata II? with an i5 processor?

ChrisD. · 24 Sep 2011 at 18:44

Yannic said:
would i notice an upgrade in speed with my m4 256gb connected on Sata II? with an i5 processor?

With the overwhelming information in your post, I've come to the conclusion that I have absolutely no idea.

rededge · 24 Sep 2011 at 20:59

Hi

Asus P6X58D-E with crappy Marvell controller!

I reckon it is set up OK (M4 and 0009 firmware), plus latest drivers I can find from stationware drivers.

Does that look about the best I can realistically expect from my SSD bearing in mind it's hobbled by the Marvell controller?

Andromeda1983 · 24 Sep 2011 at 21:00

I was able to tweak the RAID setup of the 2 x 64GB M4's and was able to squeeze out some better numbers than I got before.

System:

i2500k CPU running at 4.2Ghz overclocked (stock volts)
2 x 64GB Crucial M4 SSD's running firmware 0009
8GB Kingston PC10666 DDR3 Ram (HyperX Blu)
Gigabyte SoC GTX460 1GB Graphics Card
MSI P67-G45 B3 Motherboard running latest beta bios.
Antex TX650W Power Supply
Antec 300 Case

Yannic · 24 Sep 2011 at 21:13

MilanoChris said:
With the overwhelming information in your post, I've come to the conclusion that I have absolutely no idea.

all i was trying to ask was would I notice a large improvement updating the firmwarre on a machine with the drive connected on sata 2 instead of Sata 3? Pretty simple question I would have thought for someone who might be in the know :S