SSD upgrade, not getting results I should be?

hfg said:

That's great ... were you able to return your questionable one for a refund?

Hope the new one is a more pleasant experience, and please post the results of your upgrade here.


-howard

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Yep, just sent it out on Friday so I should be getting a full refund soon.

Also, do I need a Windows computer to update the FW on the M4? I don't run parallels or anything on this machine. So I don't have any way of getting the new FW on this SSD.

hfg said:

The firmware comes as a dedicated .iso file containing the specific update file which you can run on your Mac. It needs to be burned to a CD with Disk Utility and then becomes a bootable Linux OS which then auto-runs the Crucial updater program. It will find your SSD and then update the firmware (nondestructively to your data contained on the SSD).

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Thanks. Doesn't sound too hard. I got my M4 installed and its currently running the Rev. 309. I suppose if I run into issues I may update it but so far no issues.

And finally, I'm getting 3 gb/s! It's not out of this world numbers like you guys on Sata III but this will do. Way better than what I was getting last week!

I think I may purchase another M4 and plug it into the ODD and run a Raid 0 setup.

hfg said:

That's great ... were you able to return your questionable one for a refund?

Hope the new one is a more pleasant experience, and please post the results of your upgrade here.


-howard

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Also, are you enabling TRIM in any of your setups?