Cruicial M4 0009 Firmware Update

there is info on their website about usb upgrade


To do a manual usb flash of the new firmware you need UltraIso (free Trial) and the Crucial Firmware 0009 ISO-File.

- install UtlraISO
- Open the Iso file with UltraISO
- doubleclick on the 'BOOT' folder
- doubleclick on the 'ISOLINUX' folder
- doubleclick on 'BOOT2880.IMG' file

Now you can see the files of the DOS Image.
You need to extract these 5 files to a subdirectory on your USB stick (by right clicking on each file and choosing 'extract to...' from the context menu).
- autoexec.bat
- dosmcli.exe
- fwa.img
- hdpmi32.exe
- mode.com

After that boot from your USB stick, change to the subdirectory you put the above files to and run autoexec.bat by simply typing 'autoexec'.
That's should do it.
Good luck! ;-)
 
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prt said:
there is info on their website about usb upgrade


To do a manual usb flash of the new firmware you need UltraIso (free Trial) and the Crucial Firmware 0009 ISO-File.

- install UtlraISO
- Open the Iso file with UltraISO
- doubleclick on the 'BOOT' folder
- doubleclick on the 'ISOLINUX' folder
- doubleclick on 'BOOT2880.IMG' file

Now you can see the files of the DOS Image.
You need to extract these 5 files to a subdirectory on your USB stick (by right clicking on each file and choosing 'extract to...' from the context menu).
- autoexec.bat
- dosmcli.exe
- fwa.img
- hdpmi32.exe
- mode.com

After that boot from your USB stick, change to the subdirectory you put the above files to and run autoexec.bat by simply typing 'autoexec'.
That's should do it.
Good luck! ;-)
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Excellent. Thanks a lot. Updated now.

A few points for anyone doing it this way though:
1. UltraISO is unnecessary, extracting the ISO with 7zip works fine.
2. Your USB drive needs to be bootable, same as updating BIOS from USB. Making a USB drive that boots into DOS using Win 7 can be infuriating, there are a huge number of tools and Guides that just don't do what you need them to. I used "HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool", you'll need a copy of the files from a bootable DOS floppy for this.
 
Holy ****! That's like 80mb/s quicker from just a firmware update?! You're going to have to update the product page to state it runs at 500mb/s with a firmware update :D.
 
Hey i've just done the update, thanks for the tip off :)

That is one hell of a jump for a firmware update to make! These drives just keep getting better!
 
Thanks for the link, I would post a screenshot of changes, but it gets to the Acc.Time and comes up with an error saying something about 'could not open device'
 
Loving this 500mb/s read speeds from my 64gb! :D Well done to Crucial for this! Thanks rjkoneill for a little guide on updating the firmwire, first time doing it :).
 
Updated mine and they have gone up to around the OPs Read speeds (minus a couple of mb/s here and there) and around 20mb/s lower on the write speeds. Guessing this is because I've nearly filled my drive and OPs is only half full.

Thanks for the heads up.
 
I'm now very happy as I have just ordered one of these 128gb

How do you find what firmware is in place?
Is it possible that the new ones on pre-order, due 02/09 will have the latest firmware?

Sorry for noob questions this will be my first ssd.
 
TFC said:
I'm now very happy as I have just ordered one of these 128gb

How do you find what firmware is in place?
Is it possible that the new ones on pre-order, due 02/09 will have the latest firmware?

Sorry for noob questions this will be my first ssd.
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Check with AS SSD when you get it. If you have Sata 3 ports and are running ACHI mode then you should get around 415MB/s if it's the old firmware and 500mb/s with the new firmware.
 
Wow

Thx OP for the heads up on this, and to rjkoneill for painting the picture of how easy it was to do (as previously i thought it might not be worth the hastle).

My sequential read went up by 100MB/s, so very happy!!! As did the 4k qd32, but as i dont know what this is, i will just hope its good.

BEFORE:

prefwupgrade.jpg


AFTER:

postfwupgrade.jpg
 
TFC said:
I'm now very happy as I have just ordered one of these 128gb

How do you find what firmware is in place?
Is it possible that the new ones on pre-order, due 02/09 will have the latest firmware?

Sorry for noob questions this will be my first ssd.
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The firmware revision is actually printed on the back of the ssd.
 
This is not helping me, I'm trying to resist buying one of these!

Is it risky/inadvisable to RAID0 SSD drives? I understand RAID0 doubles the chance of failure, but are SSDs any more prone to failure than mechanical drives?

Would it be a waste running one of these on a SATA2 port?

Thanks.
 
GoogalyMoogaly said:
This is not helping me, I'm trying to resist buying one of these!

Is it risky/inadvisable to RAID0 SSD drives? I understand RAID0 doubles the chance of failure, but are SSDs any more prone to failure than mechanical drives?

Would it be a waste running one of these on a SATA2 port?

Thanks.
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Wasted on a SATA 2 port. Something that has a max read of 300mb/s would be better since it'll be cheaper and SATA 2 can't go above 300mb/s.
 
for the price, it doesnt matter

it would be bottlenecked, but for the price, its practically now the same as an older sata 2 ssd

raid 0 is a bit pointless with the speeds that these things go now.

anything over 350mb/s isn't really noticable.
 
Will this interfere with my ISRT?

If I set it to IDE mode for the upgrade and then back to RAID before a windows boot? Would that be OK?
 
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