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Crucial m4 0309 Firmware Update For 5200 Hour Bug Released Discussion

#1 User is online   Kevin OBrien 

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Posted 13 January 2012 - 05:56 PM

Crucial announced their 0309 firmware update today for the m4 SSD that fixes the 5200 hour bug recently found on long-term users of this popular SATA 6.0Gb/s drive.

Crucial m4 0309 Firmware Update For 5200 Hour Bug Released

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Posted 13 January 2012 - 07:53 PM

It makes you wonder what they wrote wrong in the previous firmware to cause that kind of strange result?

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Posted 14 January 2012 - 02:52 AM

IIRC Western Digital had a similar bug in their Velociraptors and whatnot... it's the power-on counter or something really stupid. *sigh*

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Posted 14 January 2012 - 01:19 PM

Classic programmer error ;)
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Posted 14 January 2012 - 01:25 PM

View PostBrian, on 14 January 2012 - 01:19 PM, said:

Classic programmer error ;)


Microsucks AGAIN ??????? ;)

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Posted 14 January 2012 - 02:57 PM

wow dudes, great :

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Posted 03 February 2012 - 05:05 AM

Cant upgrade with USB, my dos screen just have a dot blinking in the upper left cornor when I choose to boot from the USB, do my usb need to support something special? I have an old corsair voyager. Tried both your guide and using syslinux

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Posted 03 February 2012 - 11:27 AM

What is the system you are upgrading from?

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Posted 04 February 2012 - 06:59 AM

View PostKevin OBrien, on 03 February 2012 - 11:27 AM, said:

What is the system you are upgrading from?


A Thinkpad W520, but I miht just burn a dvd, just so wasteful for 2mb of data :P

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Posted 04 February 2012 - 10:26 AM

The W520 has USB 3.0 ports right? If so, have you tried with the USB 2.0 port(s)?
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