M600 Momentum Cache Enabled

If you guys did not already know, the new Crucial Storage Executive version brings "Momentum Cache" to all Crucial/Micron SSDs from the M500 and up. It supposedly mimics Samsung's RAPID feature. I installed and tested on my X220 Tablet with a M600 128GB drive. I'll let the results speak for themselves.

 

Yeah, you have some great RAM installed.

Upgrade your O/S to the latest and greatest (at least to Win8.1x64Pro today) and let Windows manage the caching for it's installed programs and file manager processes. I'm sure it will be better than the MC can do any day.

Any info you can provide of how it affects your system in day to day use?

 

I assume this means there's new firmware available? Any idea if it has "improvements" other than the ramdisk?


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My RAM actually isn't fantastic, its just DDR3-1333 2x4GB. Day to day use has slightly changed, application actually open up faster than they used to. Load to desktop is a little faster too.

I am curious to test this on the 256GB version in my M18x with 16GB DDR3-1867

Alexhawker, there was no firmware update. Just update to the software itself. I'm guessing Micron/Crucial had this planned for a while. My drive is on MU03 firmware.

 

My complimenting you on the RAM was showing some sarcasm of the benefits the MC can offer.

When the bm 'score' shows a 500% to 3000% increase (or more) over the non-MC assisted 'scores', yet you find a slight change with day to day usage... that should tell you something.

With RAPID, I too saw slightly increased response for certain things - but overall? The system was slower and less stable.

Curious though what the bm 'score' is without MC and... how much RAM does MC use in your low RAM (capacity) platform?

 

I have done a benchmark with MC disabled. The RAM tax isn't that high. It only added about 750MB on top of my prior usage (which is casual web browsing/word processing/office stuff) but of course that changes dynamically with higher and higher usage. I had 30 tabs open in firefox with video as a test and it ballooned to 6.66GB. I have not noticed any stability changes with MC enabled, but I do notice improvement in system snappiness, which is good enough for me. My only fear is what would happen in event of a BSOD (which I haven't had in years, if it wasn't my own doing). I don't really want data corruption.

 

I too wish that your system is still stable. The problem with RAM cache issues is that they're random - the only way you'll know you suffered from a big error is when you're typing from a borrowed pc to see how to best recover your main system.

I'll save you some time: do a complete clean install. Anything else is just asking for more and more issues and glitches... if it's even possible to get the system going again.

Thanks for the base 'scores'. Just wanted to see how close I was to 5x to 30x the scores increased using RAM (I was in the ball park).

For me to accept the increased risk (on my non-main system...) of running a RAM cache it would need to GREATLY improve snappiness. RAPID certainly doesn't do it. Is MC that much of a difference for you?

 

Not particularly no. I left it disabled. It is just nice for those that like chasing benchmark numbers, but I will try with something like bootracer or some other test for OS snappiness.