Crucial M4 / Micron C400 SSD Series Thread

I seem to recall some C400 FW versions were M4 compatible, but i'm not sure if it were for all or if the other way around was possible. I know for certain the mSATA firmware is a no no for the M4 and vice-versa.

 

I heard back from Micron support; I turns out that the 0909 firmware for the C400 is an HP specific firmware. Hp apparently writes their own firmwares for this SSD. It took me a while to finds the SSD on hp's site, because it isn't listed as a seperate part. After some time I managed to find a link to a newer firmware version here. I was able to update the firmware of the SSD with this utility.

 

Typical HP philosophy right there, they whitelist everything and make their own versions of most firmware/drivers. The still make good workstation class notebooks though.

 

Jeez! One more thing to keep an eye on.

Do you know if Lenovo does the whitelist thing with their notebook computers?

I mean, I expect my 2.5" Crucial M4 SSD (512GB size) to show up this week, so do I need to check with Crucial on if Lenovo re-writes the M4 firmware drivers for use in Lenovo computers?

I remember 15+ years ago when Dell made their mail-order desktops with modified parts so that the customers couldn't even maintain them by themselves, let alone be able to upgrade them.

I never again fully trusted Dell.

Mike Dell is one hard charger. There's a certain element of that here in the Dell forum, with the posting there by people that seem to work for Dell. But that can be a good thing in being able to get informed answers more quickly and accurately.

 

I just installed a new M4 128GB in my Dell XPS-L702x laptop as a OS drive, running Windows 8 Pro. This drive is lightening fast!. The M4 is running at the full 6GB/s SATA III speed. Boot time is less then 20 seconds! I use the existing HDD for storage now. I just wish I bought the bigger 256Gb rather than the 128.

 

For anyone running the 128gb HP C400 (MTFDDAK128MAM-1J1) Here is your firmware update! This fixed a lot of my speed issues.

sp60255.exe updates you to firmware 040H

Micron Solid State Drive (SSD) Firmware Update - HP Business Support Center

 

Hi Guys

I got my hands on a Dell branded Micron RealSSD 256gb 2.5-ich drive. I cannot for the life of me find firmware for this drive and I've asked several places. I cannot search dells download section as I dont have a service tag. If anyone can pretty please give me some advice on getting this firmware you would save my life

Thanks

 

Try to search for the firmware version you have now and add 'updated to' in a google search.

Good luck.


(Proprietary hardware in 2013 sucks).