M4 SSD 5200 hour timebomb

Luke · 5 Jan 2012 at 07:51

Picked up from a post ThePirateHulk made in GD:

ThePirateHulk said:
Looks like the M4's are starting to cause problems after 5200 hours of use

http://forums.crucial.com/t5/Solid-State-Drives-SSD/0x00000f4-error-on-M4-64GB/td-p/76392/page/12

Reading through that thread there seems to be a massive issue with drives that reach 5200 hours suddenly borking. Just checked mine and it is at 2500 hours so hopefully there will be a firmware fix available before I reach that point, but anyone who is nearing that run time might want to consider not running 24/7 for the time being.

It seems to be affecting the 64gb, 128gb and possibly the 256gb drives.

Luke · 5 Jan 2012 at 10:26

I can't see this not being resolved via firmware update though.

Luke · 5 Jan 2012 at 12:10

So far all the RMA replacements that have been provided have been refurbished driver. Not promising if they will just fail again at 5200 hours again...

Luke · 5 Jan 2012 at 13:27

Fonz-Valo said:
What's the best way to check the usage on these drives?

I'm using crystal disk info which can be downloaded freely.

Luke · 6 Jan 2012 at 07:37

Panic over it would seem. Sounds very promising to me.