Crucial has posted a firmware update (0009) for its M4 line which can be downloaded at Crucial.Com by M4 owners. The good news is that the firmware provides significant performance increase for all capacities of the M4 SSD and Crucial has all capacities of their M4 SSD on sale now at great prices. We initially thought this to be a …
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Intel Releases Firmware Fix For 320 Series SSD – Addresses Bad Context 13x Error
Not even a week after discovering the root cause of their recent 320 Series SSD issues, Intel has already made a firmware fix to the public which can be uploaded here. The update addresses issues experienced by some where their SSD was left in an almost totally unusable 8MB state and the new firmware version is 0362. Update instructions can …
Read More »SandForce Quietly Releases Performance Improving Firmware – Great News For New SSD Buyers!!
SandForce has released a new firmware update to client level manufacturers that significantly improves the performance of ‘SandForce Driven’ drives. As far as we can tell, the firmware is only available in new SSD purchases and we haven’t seen the same firmware available to present owners of SSDs using SandForce technology. . We believe this update has yet to be …
Read More »REVIEWED! – Corsair F90 Force Series 90GB SSD Review
It was just a few days back that Corsair announced the news of their upcoming release of the F90 and F180 solid state drives, both member of their Force Series of SSDs with capacities of 90 and 180GB respectively. We found a very interesting bit of information in this release that seems to run along the same course of many …
Read More »New Marvell SATA 6G Firmware Spotted For Better SSD Performance
It seems that there is a new version of the current Marvell firmware out there for those Crucial SATA 3 owners with a Gigabyte mobo and it claims to :lol:” Improve Performance of SATA Drives installed III/6G” 😆 which might be a nice thing. The version is Marvell MV-91XX firmware version 1.0.0.1047 and it is specific to Marvell chips MV-9123 …
Read More »OCZ Releases SSD Toolbox For SandForce Equipped SSDs
OCZ has just released a Toolbox for their SandForce equipped drives and its available through the OCZ Technology Forums here. A big kudos also has to go out to the Forum Support Manager, RyderOCZ, for taking the time to put together a great thread which lays out the toolbox utilities with some great graphics. . In reading the thread, the Toolbox …
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