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Crucial M4 new firmware
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Guys, if you are staying in a quiet environment, could you perform a little experiment for me?
Just run the BlackMagic benchmark and place your ear close to your MBP (where you put your M4) and tell me if you can hear very faint electronic noise (like buzzing/scratching)? It's what my SSD does when I turn on BlackMagic for example.
Just run the BlackMagic benchmark and place your ear close to your MBP (where you put your M4) and tell me if you can hear very faint electronic noise (like buzzing/scratching)? It's what my SSD does when I turn on BlackMagic for example.
No problems here... upgraded myself from 309 to 010G yesterday morning after running into this post ( another post actually referring to this ). Notebook has been running constantly since... no problems noticed so far. Working fine.
That just means the ...update tool do not recognize the SSD..., not the Mac itself.
(Sorry if I came late to the thread and it's been answered. Just hate to read the last chapter first... ;-) )
Btw- I just last night installed a 512GB M4 in my Early 2009 17" UB, firmware 000F and it's running fine (though I haven't done a lot with it other than near simultaneous launches of main apps - like launch Pages, Numbers, and Keynote as fast as I could off the dock and. The time I got to pressing the icon for Keynote, the others were tapping their virtual feet waiting on me (always the criteria for needing more horsepower, i.e. you want the computer waiting on you, not the other way around).
Black Magic Speed Test:
218.4 MB/s write,
270.7 MB/s read (using 5GB file).
Pretty much in line with the command line "dd" tests I ran which were (all the following tests were based on those command lines (search here or google for the strings))7777:
227 MB/s write, n/a on read, as the results I got we're cached and I left it at that.
For my Seagate XT Hybrid, 500 GB, the following results were had:
71.6 MB/s write, 78.9 MB/s read (4k blocks, count of 1024)
I had seen 88-90 MB/s average using Activity Monitor's Disk Activity using a 1.22 GB file. (I've been running this drive 24/7 since 9/21/11.)
I've been using firmware 010G on my 512GB M4 for almost a week now. I haven't experienced any beachballs or other issues so far.
Late-2011 15" MBP, 10.8.2.
The highest numbers I got on BlackMagic Test (using 5GB file) are
- Read 511 MB/s
- Write 262 MB/s
Late-2011 15" MBP, 10.8.2.
The highest numbers I got on BlackMagic Test (using 5GB file) are
- Read 511 MB/s
- Write 262 MB/s
000F - Beachball on wake from sleep
I have been working for a week with my late 2008 Unibody 15" MBP with a 512 GB M4 in the main bay and a 256 GB m4 where the ODD used to be. I have been so impressed with the power-on times and have been doing loads of travelling that I have been shutting down everytime I stop using the MBP. Today, however, I closed the lid for sleep, and now the blasted thing won't wake - I get non-stop beachball. Both SSDs are at firmware 000f, so I intend to update to 010G and will report back.
(I'm running Lion BTW)
HKF
UPDATE: 010G installed. So far no problems, no wake from sleep hangups, only very rapid computing. Unlucky Apple! This user ain't upgrading for a good while yet. You should have updated your iMac line much earlier in the year before I explored other (far cheaper) avenues...
I have been working for a week with my late 2008 Unibody 15" MBP with a 512 GB M4 in the main bay and a 256 GB m4 where the ODD used to be. I have been so impressed with the power-on times and have been doing loads of travelling that I have been shutting down everytime I stop using the MBP. Today, however, I closed the lid for sleep, and now the blasted thing won't wake - I get non-stop beachball. Both SSDs are at firmware 000f, so I intend to update to 010G and will report back.
(I'm running Lion BTW)
HKF
UPDATE: 010G installed. So far no problems, no wake from sleep hangups, only very rapid computing. Unlucky Apple! This user ain't upgrading for a good while yet. You should have updated your iMac line much earlier in the year before I explored other (far cheaper) avenues...
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Not me... Updated to it soon 2 weeks ago.
Not one problem... working fine.
Late 2011 15" MBP.
Had 0309 before. Nopes, no noticeable difference.
Works the same way it did before...
I know what the changes were, but I wonder what it did really change since many people are not noticing the change.
Has the TTR been faster fro anyone compared to the 0309?
The changes mentioned on the website is nothing that the user is going to notice. There were no read/write speed changes, which is pretty much the only thing a end user would notice.
Unfortunately this is not working for me. The program opens correctly and restarts Windows as advertised, but when it restarts it comes up with a black screen that skips my two non-MS partitions, then tries the first NTFS partition it can find. Nothing seems to happen after about 30 seconds, then it restarts and when I log back into Windows I get an error saying the program isn't working. And of course, the firmware has not been updated.
Any ideas?
yusukeaoki, something seems amiss with your system , here are my current numbers with the newest firmware... on somewhat similar machines
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You seem to have the 256GB model?
I have the 128GB which only has the write speed of 200 or under.
And yes, my SSD seems to be slowing down day to day.
On initial start up of speedtest, I can get up to 190w/500r.
But as I let the test go, the second test shows speed going down.
I finally end up with the score of 29w/14r.
I have the 512gb, I didn't realize the smaller models have different write speeds. Do you have TRIM enabled?
The 256 and 512GB are the same.
128GB is under 200mbps.
I got this one since it was a sale in Japan while on my visit (only 60USD!
)And no I dont have it enabled and using the old firmware 0309.
The 256 and 512GB are the same.
128GB is under 200mbps.
I got this one since it was a sale in Japan while on my visit (only 60USD!
And no I dont have it enabled and using the old firmware 0309.
I bet with trim and new firmware would fix you up.
I asked that question couple back but people mentioned the new firmware has no speed change from the 0309.
Im still afraid to enable TRIM since I hear many horrific stories about them.