GSkill Falcon firmware v1819 released

bilston · 4 Nov 2009 at 10:44

Just a heads up to anyone waiting for this little gem of a firmware to turn up, it's finally been released!

http://gskill.us/forum/showthread.php?t=2496

It will wipe your drive, needs the jumper to be in place, and it's probably best to perform the upgrade from an OS installed on IDE as opposed to AHCI but I'm just about to test that out myself.

The last firmware was fine on AHCI so Im not expecting any problems.

UKDTweak · 4 Nov 2009 at 10:48

WEll shock and horror, they finally released it, lets hope the wait means no problems like the OCZ and Intel releases...

Let us know how it goes....

bilston · 4 Nov 2009 at 10:50

Not expecting any problems myself, I think those with RAID'd drives are the ones with most issues anyway

UKDTweak · 4 Nov 2009 at 10:53

Fingers crossed, but I'll hold off on updating till a a week or so, give others a chance to report their findings...

Nick1881 · 4 Nov 2009 at 11:06

What does this update bring?

Trim? Guess I should click the link

Change logs

1. The controller now supports Windows 7 TRIM command much better.

2. Parts of SMART function command have been improved to further increase the accuracy.

3. Fixed the occasional failure caused by the SATA 1.5G bug.

4. Modified part of DATA transferring command and increase the stability of data throughput.

Sounds good.

bilston · 4 Nov 2009 at 12:23

Ok, it appears a lot more snappier than 1571. Looking promising so far

Highly recommended for single drive users

Mel_P · 4 Nov 2009 at 13:15

Isn't this the same as the "1819" us Crucial owners have had so many issues with (like slowwwww............ down) ??

bilston · 4 Nov 2009 at 14:22

gskill have been testing it and ironing out the bugs apparently, thats why it's taken so long to come out.

UKDTweak · 4 Nov 2009 at 14:26

Thats why I'm gonna wait a week to see how others get on with it, make sure there are no bugs!!!

gary996 · 4 Nov 2009 at 18:36

About time. Will see what happens after a week or two though

UKDTweak · 8 Nov 2009 at 20:14

Reports on the official forums suggest performance drops after updating to the new FM... glad I waited!

bilston · 9 Nov 2009 at 12:28

well for single drive use, i have encountered zero bugs so far

zom247 · 9 Nov 2009 at 16:20

bilston said:
well for single drive use, i have encountered zero bugs so far

Same here, flashed it on Saturday and all seems fine. Did a benchmark test and got the same result as the 1571 firmware.

DreadNiK · 11 Nov 2009 at 13:39

sweet, just got win7 and will be switching as soon as I have the time to make the switchover properly, so looks like I'll be flashing the firmware at same time, as it isn't really convenient to wipe my drive at any other time

zom247 · 11 Nov 2009 at 19:20

DreadNiK said:
sweet, just got win7 and will be switching as soon as I have the time to make the switchover properly, so looks like I'll be flashing the firmware at same time, as it isn't really convenient to wipe my drive at any other time

Was a pain to flash for me too. I had to stick it in my HTPC and then flash it that way, only took minutes to flash but took me ages to get the HTPC out from under the telly