M4 firmware 0309 is now available

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(The 64GB variant maxes out at 110-115MB/s)
 
Bought M4 SSD from Overclockers - great service as usual, updated firmware successfully but now my laptop has crashed (BSOD) 3 times - what's going on?
How can I fix?
 
I've had a 256GB M4 in my desktop PC since I built it around Christmas. It's ran great however the PC failed to boot into Windows from a cold boot on Monday night. it was OK after a couple of restarts but did the same again on Tuesday and today. I feared the drive was dying but found this thread, applied firmware 0309 and it seems to be OK again.
 
Before I applied 0309 to my M4 I was a virtual outcast of society, people shunned me. I was lonely and afraid.

But now, after applying 0309, women want me and men want to be me. People cheer me in the street when ever I walk by...

Truly life fixingly epic firmware.
 
Wucked said:
Before I applied 0309 to my M4 I was a virtual outcast of society, people shunned me. I was lonely and afraid.

But now, after applying 0309, women want me and men want to be me. People cheer me in the street when ever I walk by...

Truly life fixingly epic firmware.
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Sounds like a bug to me. Think you should stick with this firmware and ignore any future releases in case your life reverts back to the miserable existence it was prior to this.
 
I get annoying 30 second freezes since installing this ssd.

My mobo is an Abit IP35 Pro XE.

I have the latest firmware for the ssd.

It's very annoying. The system freezes for around 30 seconds with the HD light on before it runs again.

Is there a definite solution?

I have enabled AHCI.




dog-man
 
Check event viewer for hard drive errors. Could be a dodgy cable or a hard drive on the brink of breaking.

What does Task Manager show when it's 'freezing'?

Did you install Windows with AHCI enabled?
 
The event viewer shows they are 'controller errors'.

It can happen with any of my drives it seems, as there are more than one listed.


I installed windows before changing to AHCI following a guide from on here I believe.
It involved making changes in my bios and to the registry.

Apart from the freezes, the system is fine.

I will check task manager when it next freezes, but I believe the whole system freezes, so may not have access to taskmanager.



dog-man
 
Personally, I'd install again using AHCI (only have the M4 plugged in during the install, to avoid Windows putting boot files on other drives)

See if the problem persists.

Try other SATA cables if the problem is still there.
 
- Use Intel/AMD SATA ports
- Use AHCI Mode
- Ensure drive is 4k aligned correctly (if you install Windows 7 to a raw SSD without manually making a partition this should happen automatically)
- Use customised drivers (e.g. Intel RST)
- Run latest firmware

Note that the 64 GB drives have much lower write speed than the 128+ GB drives.
 
I might have solved it.

I discovered that there was also an esata driver for my JMB36X controller.

As I run 4 x drives in a NAS via esata, I installed this driver and so far there have been no freezes.

I am not confident this has fixed it yet as the freezes seemed very random.



dog-man
 
No freezes at all since installing the estata driver so looks like I have fixed my problem.

It already had the correct sata driver and I thought that was enough.



dog-man
 
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