New Crucial M4 firmware released.

[imaheadcase]

http://www.crucial.com/support/firmware.aspx

Release Date: 08/25/2011
Change Log:

Changes made in version 0002 (m4 can be updated to revision 0009 directly from either revision 0001 or 0002)
Improved throughput performance.
Increase in PCMark Vantage benchmark score, resulting in improved user experience in most operating systems.
Improved write latency for better performance under heavy write workloads.
Faster boot up times.
Improved compatibility with latest chipsets.
Compensation for SATA speed negotiation issues between some SATA-II chipsets and the SATA-III device.
Improvement for intermittent failures in cold boot up related to some specific host systems.


Someone play guinea pig and post before and after

Here is some tests done already... Nice speed bump
http://www.derbench.de/index.php/co...rucial-m4-und-micron-c400-erschienen?Itemid=0

 

[d4a2n0k]

I'm seeing pretty decent gains on my 128GB. Also have a 64GB, will update that over the weekend.

Before

After

 

[Patrick Wolf]

Nice gains here too! Good of Crucial to give a free performance boost.

PCMark Vantage HDD Suite went from 46850 to 52753.

Before:

After:

Before:

After:

 

[Demo24]

Lol, damn I updated to 0002 the day these were being released.

 

[flopper]

works a lot better than 0002 for me.

 

[Eug]

works a lot better than 0002 for me.

How so, and what OS?

 

[VenomXTF]

M4 128GB here with a fresh install of Windows 7 64bit on an AMD SATAII motherboard (time for an upgrade). No idea what happened with the 512K numbers.

02 Firmware

09 Firmware

 

[imaheadcase]

I should get my 256gig one Monday, will be on sata 2 till late oct. Not like it will matter much.

 

[m3t4lh34d]

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[Demo24]

I'm actually not seeing any improvement (mildly less than 0002 actually), but it could be because I cloned my c drive over to this one. My speeds are noticeably less than everyone elses here. I suppose at some point I should take the time and do a clean install.

 

[dali71]

Before:

After:

:biggrin:

 

[onethreehill]

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

This is direct from Crucials note to us:

Increases…

• sequential read speeds by up to 20%
• PCMark Vantage benchmark scores, which results in an improved user experience in most operating systems

Improves…

• throughput performance
• write latency for better performance under heavy write workloads
• compatibility with latest chipsets
• intermittent failures in cold boot up related to some specific host systems

Provides…

• users with faster boot up timescompensation for SATA speed negotiation issues between some SATA-II chipsets and the SATA-III device

We thought it only fair to show you first hand what we are seeing. We tested our Crucial M4 128GB SSD before the upgrade (left) and then after we applied their new ver. 0009 firmware (right). All tests conducted are fresh results and were done within an hour.

CRYSTAL DISKMARK

AS SSD BENCHMARK

http://thessdreview.com/latest-buzz...-tests-display-definite-performance-increase/

 

[VulgarDisplay]

I really should have bought one of these when they were on sale a few weeks ago. Even though I'm on Sata II at the moment it would still be a huge performance increase over my HD's.

 

[flopper]

How so, and what OS?

win 7 64bit.
had some issues with firefox 6 which was a little off with lot of tabs open, the new fw have brought a much smoother experience.

 

[Eug]

Firefox 6 still has the memory leak AFAIK. Not sure if that had anything to do with it. Firefox 7 is supposed to have addressed it, but unfortunately the FF7 beta is still buggy.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Firefox 6 still has the memory leak AFAIK. Not sure if that had anything to do with it. Firefox 7 is supposed to have addressed it, but unfortunately the FF7 beta is still buggy.

So happy I switched to Chrome when FF was still at 3.something. Amazing how they haven't fixed that yet.

Oh. Firmware running great! Not going to bother with benches.

 

[imaheadcase]

Those are some big increases posted!

 

[jobz]

@demo24, check for proper alignment, and re-run the windows experience index to prompt windows that it is running on a ssd now.

 

[OVerLoRDI]

Sweet! I'll update mine today. Glad I saw this post

 

[imaheadcase]

Do you have to use a cdr burned to apply this? Or can you use a flashdrive if bios supports booting from it?

 

[LokutusofBorg]

If you have a program that can burn a bootable ISO to a USB drive, then I'm sure it will work fine.

 

[ViviTheMage]

will do mine tonight! gracias

 

[john3850]

Have a recent 64 m-4 firm 001 never benched do to small size
This is a bad firmware for any size ssd.

Sequential Read : 507.294 MB/s
Sequential Write : 115.622 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 406.452 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 114.485 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 27.667 MB/s [ 6754.5 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 68.255 MB/s [ 16663.9 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 282.759 MB/s [ 69032.9 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 112.137 MB/s [ 27377.3 IOPS]
fast reads slow writes do small size ssd
Test : 1000 MB [C: 21.7% (12.9/59.6 GB)] (x1)
Date : 2011/08/29 19:46:45
OS : Windows 7 Home Premium Edition SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)

 

[nanaki333]

going to have to flash my 128 and 256 this week i think. my 256 is my steam drive so i probably won't see much difference in that.

 

[beginner99]

how is this done? I assuem no fresh install of OS needed?

will build a pc for parents tomorrow woth the 64 GB version in is and i assume it will be on 0002 firmware.