SSD upgrade, not getting results I should be?

[hfg]

Originally Posted by tonyy

I should be getting my new M4 on Monday. Looking forward to joining your discussion!

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

[tonyy]

Originally Posted by hfg

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

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]

Originally Posted by tonyy

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.

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).

[tonyy]

Originally Posted by hfg

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).

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.

[tonyy]

Originally Posted by hfg

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

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

[hfg]

Originally Posted by tonyy

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

I don't know if it is really necessary ... but yes, I did enable TRIM.

Crucial and OWC claim their built in "garbage collection" is adequate and no TRIM is needed ... but it doesn't seem to hurt either.

Your DiskSpeedTest results look pretty normal for the M4 on SATA-II. Congratulations!

-howard