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movax posted:I dunno, I thought their RAM was fairly well regarded. I ran all OCZ DDR2 on my older systems, but then again it wasn't any crazy extreme overclocker stuff, like some of the really high-end Crucial Ballistix. The OCZ DDR3 RAM in my laptop lasted all of 9 months before it poo poo the bed last. I'm not an overclock-er at all. I don't hold them in high regard.
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I'm a week into my Seagate Momentus xt750 hybrid and am noticing the positive effects of the caching. Windows startup and shutdown times are easily half what they were with my WD Scorpio 7200 rpm HDD. I have some pretty intense Excel and Access files and load times are easily half there too. Why did I choose a hybrid over an SSD? I really do need 750GB of storage space in my laptop, and need my optical drive to load clients' data. I got a steal on an open-box Momentus from a local mom-and-pop store - $125. If this can last me another 3 years, my next laptop will have an SSD. I'm happy so far!
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May 27, 2012 14:51
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I put an M4 256gb in my dad's Dell xps 1645 and it poo poo the bed. I put the factory hdd back in and updated the bios, reinstalled the ssd and it was fine. I blame Dell, not crucial.
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Sep 21, 2012 17:50
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I'm thankful for backups... My 3 month old 512gb M4 just flaked out. Not sure what happened... no blue screens, no warning. I booted up this morning, and I couldn't make it past the Dell logo screen. Popped the old HDD back in and no issues. I have a ticket open with Crucial, hopefully there's a fix or repair in my future 
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Oct 7, 2012 00:30
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Alereon posted:I could be wrong, I remember the Anandtech failure and I thought there was at least one other report of issues. The Samsung 830 did also have a similar pattern of pre-release issues, but was mostly ok at launch, and fine after a firmware update. Actually I installed the new firmware a couple of nights ago
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Oct 7, 2012 01:12
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Well, it appears the firmware update is what borkd my m4. Is it possible to roll the firmware back, or do I need to swap with Crucial?
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Oct 8, 2012 19:23
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Goober Peas posted:Well, it appears the firmware update is what borkd my m4. Is it possible to roll the firmware back, or do I need to swap with Crucial? I want to plug the awesomeness of Crucial tech support. Got a guy from Idaho on the line in under 5 min. Problem was with firmware causing the SSD to not wake up on boot. Tech says he's had a couple of calls daily for the past week on it. Solution is to power on and leave the system on the bios screen for 20 minutes. Evidently the bios wakes the drive up, which will allow the user to boot the os and roll the firmware back. Tech said there is no clear correlation with systems experiencing the issue. It's happening on Macs and PCs and various. chipsets. I'm up and running again!
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Oct 9, 2012 01:48
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000f is the last guaranteed trouble free firmware version for the M4. 010g took about 12 hours before it poo poo the bed on my XPS15. 
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Nov 1, 2012 00:24
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I'm struggling to use the term "bricked" to describe what I experienced with Crucial and firmware. To me "bricked" means it is dead, a paperweight with no future functionality other than keeping stuff from blowing off my desk. My experience was more like it quit working, I called for help and within an hour it was working again. Definitely annoying, but definitely still functional. Is there a standard definition for "bricked"?
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