Cruicial M4 0009 Firmware Update

I was all up for buying a corsair force 3, cos they're fast. then i saw this thread......Now I have an M4 due for delivery on Monday. Speed and better reliability than SF? yes please.
 
Installed win 7. AHCI mode etc. Installed latest RST drivers. Still pretty empty drive. SataII performance on P5Q PRO. Quite happy with these numbers!

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My last bench will be when I have the other 3 HDDs plugged in and a bunch of apps installed. At the moment it gets to the desktop in about 10 secs once the bios screen disappears. :D <3
 
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I'm still only getting around 490MB/s read with most benchmark tests that I carry out. I even did another full clean install yesterday just incase it may of been a driver issue but even after re-installing windows and running CrystalDiskMark with the default Windows AHCI drivers it still shows that my drive never hits over 495MB/s :(

I've currently got the latest Intel INF driver installed and the latest Intel RST driver too and my results still come out the same. I wonder what has happened since the first day when I was getting 512MB/s as you can see in my earlier post? I'm out of ideas now and the drive is still only 33% full but surely this would not have an affect of speed would it? Lastly the SSD drive is currently hooked up to the Intel SATA3 port 1 connector.

Thanks all - Liam
 
LEK-89 said:
I'm still only getting around 490MB/s read with most benchmark tests that I carry out. I even did another full clean install yesterday just incase it may of been a driver issue but even after re-installing windows and running CrystalDiskMark with the default Windows AHCI drivers it still shows that my drive never hits over 495MB/s :(

I've currently got the latest Intel INF driver installed and the latest Intel RST driver too and my results still come out the same. I wonder what has happened since the first day when I was getting 512MB/s as you can see in my earlier post? I'm out of ideas now and the drive is still only 33% full but surely this would not have an affect of speed would it? Lastly the SSD drive is currently hooked up to the Intel SATA3 port 1 connector.

Thanks all - Liam
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All SSD will slow down a little after use. Stop running the benchmarks as they will slow down the drive even more if you run them too much. Just leave it and let TRIM kick in or the GC and then it should go back to about 500mb/s.

Does you system seem slow if so then you may have a problem. Mine is still fast after a month and so I don't worry about the benchmarks, just be glad you can afford a SSD like this one and have intel SATA3 ports.
 
manishpatel80 said:
All SSD will slow down a little after use. Stop running the benchmarks as they will slow down the drive even more if you run them too much. Just leave it and let TRIM kick in or the GC and then it should go back to about 500mb/s.

Does you system seem slow if so then you may have a problem. Mine is still fast after a month and so I don't worry about the benchmarks, just be glad you can afford a SSD like this one and have intel SATA3 ports.
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Thanks for your reply, that is re-assuring to know :)

I will also stop doing the benchmarks now, typical me being paranoid lol.

The drive itself still runs spot on and I have not ran into any problems with it yet.

Liam
 
Phil3 said:
I was all up for buying a corsair force 3, cos they're fast. then i saw this thread......Now I have an M4 due for delivery on Monday. Speed and better reliability than SF? yes please.
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Mine didn't dispatch on Friday so guess I'll get it Tuesday instead :(
 
Thanks for the help guys :)

Just another question - when does TRIM/Garbage Collection kick in??

Thanks all - Liam
 
Mine arrived this afternoon.
First thing I did was get the firmware update on. Was very easy and quick I must say.
No before pics, but it seems pretty consistent with everyone.

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I'm only getting 270mb/sec, thought I had SATA3 6gb sockets on my board but it only says 3gb - is that the issue?

Intel® P55 Express Chipset built-in
6 x SATA 3.0 Gb/s ports
Intel Matrix Storage Technology Support RAID 0,1,5,10

JMicron® JMB363 PATA and SATA controller
1 x UltraDMA 133/100/66 for up to 2 PATA devices
1 x External SATA 3Gb/s port (SATA on-the-go)
1 x SATA 3Gb/s port (black)
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Got it plugged into the Intel one with latest chipset & matrix drivers installed and new firmware.
 
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Hey all,

I ran the crystal benchmark before just to see speeds and something isn't adding up...



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This is a Cruicial M4 64GB plugged into the Marvel port (funny flat one) on my ASUS P8P67-M PRO. It's a 6Gb/s port, isn't it?
 
That's quite poor for the 64gb. I guess it's because you're using the Marvel controller. They're pants and can't even give full 6Gbps speeds. Try connecting it to a native Intel controlled port? According to the manual of your board it's the white connectors.
 
Tried swapping the ports, no joy. Most of the time it couldn't sustain running off the marvel port. Switched it back and it works fine :s

Also from looking at the drive its firmware vers 0001 ;)
 
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