Comments on: Crucial M4 SSD Firmware Update (0009) Posted – Tests Display Definite Performance Increase

By: Sabandija_333

Sabandija_333 — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 05:21:00 +0000

the best the best thank you guys

By: J-tiz

J-tiz — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:24:00 +0000

In case others did not see my response to another person’s post, I updated the firmware on four 64GB M4’s (two per Raid0 setup.. I have two PC’s). On one PC, I was already planning on building a Raid0 array and wanted to make a fresh Win7 installation. On my other PC which already had two M4’s in Raid0.. well… after the update, Windows would not boot up. It acts as if there is no OS on the drives. I have double-checked the BIOS to make sure the right disks are being read, and of course these are the only two harddrives in my case. It reads the Raid0 array as it did before in the BIOS, but it doesn’t get to a Windows boot-up logo. OS not found… or whatever the error is. Good thing I save everything on different drives.. whew!

By: J-tiz

J-tiz — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:04:00 +0000

In reply to Chris. Actually, after updating the firmware on my two 64GB M4's, my pc would NOT load Windows. It deleted my data or corrupted the data. I do not recommend this firmware update unless one is planning on reinstalling Windows!

By: lyngvi

lyngvi — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:48:00 +0000

A simpler Windows version of the update? Are you kidding?

The ISO with the micro-OS is fantastic. Compared to, say, having to come up with an MS-DOS boot disk (for an update I did in 2007, no less), or the software only running on Windows 95/98/ME, or XP SP1 but not SP2/SP3, or it running on only 32-bit versions of Windows when you’ve only got 64-bit; gods forbid you run Linux or any other OS…

This might be the first hard disk firmware update I’ve ever seen that I could run with less than 10 minutes of prep time. I thank Crucial for releasing it in this form.

It’s only a problem if you lack a CD drive of any kind, a problem generally limited to a very short list of laptops.

By: Elvis

Elvis — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 23:17:50 +0000

I just installed an M4-128GB as my primary drive in my 2010 MBP. Upgraded to v9 firmware. 10 second boot, 2 second s/d. I enabled TRIM, disabled hibernate and disk sleep. I’ve read a few other tweaks like disable spotlight, but also read those tweaks might cause problems. I used the Mac OS DU to “restore” to the SSD after partitioning/formatting. I reduced the partition size to 100G before “restoring.” I was planning to use CCC but using DU seemed easier and faster. Awesome firmware update. I’ll be recommending to anyone who asks.