Crucial M4 SSD Hard Drive - Bug Report - Stops Working after 5184 Hours *FIX Available*

goober on 12/04/2012 - 10:17
Last edited 12/04/2012 - 10:29

Folks, quite a few of you have bought these SSDs from deals here, suggest you upgrade your Firmware asap:

"Just a heads up for anyone else that is running the Crucial M4 SSD's in their boxes.

We've had a couple 'fail' and on liasing with Crucial, they have identified that after ~ 5000hours, there is a bug in the firmware which causes the units to shutdown after 5184 hours running….

A simple firmware update is all that is required to get the units working again."

Hopes this helps someone.

Download from here:
http://www.crucial.com/support/firmware.aspx

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Comments

  • RandomNinja on 12/04/2012 - 13:58

    Simple firmware update… for some maybe.

    Sadly the auto updater for Win7 didn't work for me (and a lot of other people it seems). I consider myself reasonably tech savvy, but still spent hours getting the firmware to update manually.

    All I can say is prepare for some frustrating times if you embark on this…

    • dirtybird on 13/04/2012 - 14:00

      Worked ok for me.
      Different move to the instructions I extracted the file to C:\ then ran it.

    • slowmo on 25/04/2012 - 22:34

      havent seen the versions available, but i believe you can just use a linux 'live' disc to patch too if there is a linux updater?

  • dirtybird on 13/04/2012 - 12:05

    How do you tell how many hours its been running?

    I used http://ssd-life.com/eng/download-ssdlife.html
    And I'm guessing Work Time of 4608hrs is the same value and not just calculated from the date it was installed.

    Crystal Disk Info is another http://download.dkszone.net/crystaldiskinfo-monitor-hard-dis…

  • slowmo on 25/04/2012 - 22:32

    use Speed Fan, I use that to monitor temp primarily, but already has features for HDD and such.

  • Untameable on 30/04/2012 - 11:16

    It has some serious problems.

    The new firmwares are twice as slow as the previous ones. They won't work from a Mac off a USB stick, you have to use optical media (many people, like me, use this drive in place of their optical one, leaving us SOOL).

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