Got 2 brand new #MX500 #Crucial 1000GB with Firmware #M3CR045.

BOTH die on me the moment the bootloader is installed.

They recover when the data cable is disconnected for 5 minute (power must stay on!).

Apparently there is #M3CR046 fixing "a rare case" of hanging disk. Might be this. Might not. I can not even check, because I can not simply download the firmware. A ~200MB freakin TOOL by Crucial is needed for that.

Oh boy, that goes totally back to vendor. Fuck this shit.

Finally I replaced my 21 year old mouse - #Logitech #MX500 btw - against a new one. I mean it worked perfectly all the time, I never saw a need to buy one. But yesterday I thought I do it. To look how it is with more dpi and so on. And what can I say, almost night and day, haha, but 21 years ago it was high end you know. I invested 25€ for a #Razer and hope it will last the next 20 years 😁

#SSD Firmware Update:

Seems like firmware version #M3CR046 for the #Crucial #MX500 series drives fixed the problem.

I've been running my regular workloads on them over the past week since the firmware updates and so far no drives have spontaneously gone offline 🤞

Ok so, let's talk #Crucial #SSD drives, buggy #firmware, buggy support #software, and [maybe] a fix to unexpected drive hangs.

Backstory:
So I have a number of #MX500 1TB SSDs.

My older ones, perfectly fine. Rock solid no matter what I throw at them.

The newer ones that came with firmware version #M3CR045, not so much.

Apparently there's a bug {probably to do with #TRIM} in this firmware version that can cause the drive to "hang" or become unresponsive, requiring a power off/on to fix

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Avec la sortie du #SSD #MX500, il y a des affaires à faire sur le #MX300 désormais bradé.
Vu que la différence entre les deux n'est pas flagrante… et que le MX300 est un très bon SSD. Foncez. 😉