New Crucial MX500 2TB transfer failure?

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I installed a new Crucial 2TB MX500 drive, formatted it and checked it on CrystalDiskInfo just to confirm it's new - all good.
Started copying over about 50GB data and after a few seconds the transfer speed tanked to 0, transfer paused and eventually crashed with Windows error "A device which does not exist was specified".

To windows the drive had practically dissapeared. I had to restart the pc to get it to identify the drive again. I deleted the volume and formatted it again, tried the same transfer and this time it worked.
Should I be worried? It seems to be working alright at the moment. I've never seen a transfer fail so quick on a new drive so I'm a bit worried. CrysdiskInfo still reports a health of 100%.

Did some digging and the serial begins "20"xx which indicates it's using the newer controller SM2259. Not sure if it's TLC or QLC. Firmware is M3CR045.
I don't want to install Crucial Storage Executive (233MB bloatware just to check a drive?) is there another way to check if a newer firmware is available?

 

[defoerate]

Without their software to check
Just go to their website and look for firmware updates

I did check the crucial site but there isn't any option to download it seperately don't know what they're playing at.

Don't bother, it's useless, last time I tried it it didn't read any of my crucial drives with 043/045 firmwares, not even smart data.... no new firmware last I checked. Ironically Seagate seatools, which go with my nvme drives, does read the smart data lol

I think there may be an update to at least 046 available. I just saw a 3 month old thread on reddit where op was complaining about failures occuring under 045 and had to install Crucial Storage Executive as the update was only available through that! (thread@: https://www.reddit.com/r/unRAID/comments/110jpt2/warning_crucial_mx500_ssd_firmware_bug_can/ )

Someone later posted details about 046 update:

New Version: M3CR046
Release Date: Dec-4-2022
Release Notes: This is an optional update which repairs a hang condition occurring under corner-case workloads. Most Windows desktop and notebook users will be unaffected by this change.

I wonder if the hang condition is what I had? Probably will have to at some point install Crucial's bloatware and see if I can update the firmware.