News - Crucial firmware update brings Windows 7 TRIM support to M225-series SSDs

[HEXUS]

Latest Crucial SSD firmware provides TRIM support and a number of bug fixes.

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[jlsd]

I've been running with this on Win 7 for over a week and no problems - performance of the M225 with 1819 has been impressive and consistent.

[RADCOM]

Many people on the crucial forums are reporting a drop in performance since this firmware upgrade. The previous firmware wasn't too hot either. They don't seem to be very good at this lol I shall do a comparison before and after later this week.

[djfarmo]

I shall do a comparison before and after later this week.

I'd be interested to hear your findings

[RADCOM]

Doh I didn't test with the old firmware...... in my haste I just upgraded the firmware, loaded the OS and then tested. From what I remember though the speeds are a tad faster than before yay.

Sequential Read : 225.650 MB/s
Sequential Write : 147.226 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 159.163 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 144.362 MB/s
Random Read 4KB : 27.389 MB/s
Random Write 4KB : 17.566 MB/s

Test Size : 100 MB
Date : 2009/11/05 13:11:12s

[chrislmc]

How do you upgrade firmware? I have an early M225 128GB and I have been getting bluescreens in Windows 7 recently. TRIM would be nice too...