The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Hey Now! About that Crucial M4... it fails after 5200 hrs (~216 days @ 24/hr day)

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by zenbane, Jan 5, 2012.

  1. zenbane

    zenbane Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    17
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    zenbane, Jan 5, 2012
    #1
  2. Ellatan

    Ellatan Old Timer

    Reputations:
    622
    Messages:
    1,626
    Likes Received:
    45
    Trophy Points:
    66
    Ellatan, Jan 5, 2012
    #2
  3. jclausius

    jclausius Notebook Virtuoso

    Reputations:
    6,160
    Messages:
    3,265
    Likes Received:
    2,573
    Trophy Points:
    231
    From reading that thread and one other (can't find the link), it looks as if Crucial is on the problem, but have been mum on what the problem may be. Also, it appears right now to be limited to drives from 6 months ago.

    I have no doubt it will be fixed, but it is a matter of *when*. And we don't yet know if it was something for drives manufactured 6 mos ago, or it takes 6 months for the problem to show. For peace of mind (and not having to wait for a fix), you may want to return it and go with an Intel 510 or Samsung 830 for a new machine arriving any day.

    Just my $0.02.
     
    jclausius, Jan 5, 2012
    #3
  4. zenbane

    zenbane Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    17
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Just ordered the Samsung from Amzn and printed out return for M4.... AND my shipping confirmation from Malibal just came. Oh lawd! :D
     
    zenbane, Jan 5, 2012
    #4
  5. Kevin

    Kevin Egregious

    Reputations:
    3,289
    Messages:
    10,780
    Likes Received:
    1,782
    Trophy Points:
    581
    The last page of that thread has a post from a Crucial rep, which says they have a firmware fix releasing on the 16th of January.
     
    Kevin, Jan 5, 2012
    #5
  6. dante316

    dante316 Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    4
    Messages:
    254
    Likes Received:
    2
    Trophy Points:
    31
    whew... glad i still check these forums...
     
    dante316, Jan 5, 2012
    #6
  7. Designopolis

    Designopolis Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    12
    Messages:
    81
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    And here I have a fresh M4 sitting on my desk that arrived yesterday.

    All the same, I suspect Crucial will be on this. The M4 is the product that got them a lot of good grace during the Sandforce fiasco, and it would be nothing but gain for them in the end to not be OCZ and actually tackle a problem with their product in an intelligent, respectable and ultimately effective matter.
     
    Designopolis, Jan 5, 2012
    #7