Cruicial M4 0009 Firmware Update

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Just installed a new m4 256 and upgraded to the 009 firmware.
Running it on a q6600 p35 mb - hence sata 2 (will be upgrading soonish~bulldozer,intel~)
 
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Yannic said:
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
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Well since you never said, were we meant to guess your question?

Answer is probably not, but I'd be upgrading it anyway if I were you.
 
MilanoChris said:
Well since you never said, were we meant to guess your question?

Answer is probably not, but I'd be upgrading it anyway if I were you.
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ya dont see why not - you bought a ssd because you want fast performance and the update should help it a little so why not.

just did it myself and running sata2 but didnt bench before (easier to upgrade when empty).
 
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My score looks quite pants compared to others. This is a brand new build and I have updated the firmware to 0009 which seemed to go ok. I originally thought it was due to me being dumb and connecting the SATA cable to a SATA 2 port and not 3. I have swapped them over but it has made no difference. Any ideas on what my problem could be?

Thanks
 
I've gone from a sequential 197MB/s to 223MB/s read on Sata II going from rev 0001 to rev 0009 for anyone who is interested.

I was looking at some of the numbers others seem to have got and have decided I'm going to sell the 256GB m4 and buy 2x128GB drives and the £85 MSI p67 G45 motherboard. Stick them on the 2 Sata 3 ports and fingers crossed, I can get sequential reads of 1GB/s.

Anyone wanting to buy a 2 month old M4 256GB ?

Iain
 
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Anyone know just how much real world performance (don't really care about benches) i'm losing by being stuck on SATA II? I'm pretty happy with my 128GB Crucial M4 (flashed to 0009 fw) performance, but i'm wondering if I should bring forward my Sandy bridge rebuild.
 
I've recently upgraded my htpc to sandybridge with a z68 mobo and core i3 2100 with a crucial m4 fw 009 for boot. All is well and running quick however I'd be lying if I said I noticed any difference in speed or snapiness compared to my x58 setup running a sata 2 kingston ssd drive.

So imo sata 2 vs sata 3 is not a great deal unless you look at benchmarks.
 
IvanDobskey said:
Anyone know just how much real world performance (don't really care about benches) i'm losing by being stuck on SATA II? I'm pretty happy with my 128GB Crucial M4 (flashed to 0009 fw) performance, but i'm wondering if I should bring forward my Sandy bridge rebuild.
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the difference appears to be going from around 230MB/s sequential read speed up to 500MB/s running on the intel 6Gb/s ports. Quite an improvement, Ive decided to go down the sandybridge update for this to a 2500k CPU and have also decided to stripe 2 smaller m4's. Hope I notice an improvement going from 230 to ~1000 on boot times and game/large app loads.
 
IvanDobskey said:
Anyone know just how much real world performance (don't really care about benches) i'm losing by being stuck on SATA II? I'm pretty happy with my 128GB Crucial M4 (flashed to 0009 fw) performance, but i'm wondering if I should bring forward my Sandy bridge rebuild.
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ya I did just the opposite - IMO id keep the m4; dont you lose trim if you raid?

hmmm your call thou.
 
Definitely going to keep the m4, very happy with it. Just wondering if being on sata II severely holds it back. Going to upgrade the CPU/board/ram soon though.
 
rjkoneill said:
correct

I am unsure what this stigma surrounding updating an SSD firmware is all about

updating the firmware is easy

DL the FW and burn the iso to disc

then ensure your sata mode is IDE in the bios [it should be set to AHCI so you will need to change this]

boot from your cd rom

wait for the utility to tell you that your m4 is detected and needs to be updated

type 'yes' by pressing the Y, E and S keys in that order

then press enter

walk to the oven to check if your pizza is done

then come back and see your drive has finished updating.

restart with CTRL+ALT+DEL

enter bios and change SATA mode back to AHCI

then sit back in your chair and say, "woah, that was pretty easy. I dont know what I was making all that fuss about. It took less than 5 minutes of my time and now my drive is 1/5th faster than it was before."

then sit there with a smug grin on your face knowing that your SSD update was really easy and the people who bought an agility 3 are having massive problems.
unlike yourself.
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Well cheers for this, pre this update I was getting 310 read and about 125 write. now getting 506 and 193 on the asrock extreme4 gen3
 
Recieved the drive today, installed it and immediately updated to 0009 (via a USB stick, very easy to do) and did a clean install of Windows. Updated directly to latest Intel chipset and Intel Storage drivers. Does this look any good? Some of it is okay but other results (4K) look a bit low imo. This is on a SATA II interface on my HM55 laptop.

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