Question Early Crucial SSD adopters beware!

[niborP]

Here's an interesting article about pre 2016 Crucial SSD drives, the author of the link had asked Crucial for the patch they'd allegedly written to fix his drive and was told he was 'out if warranty' and refused. Needlessly to say they lost a customer!
https://kb.stonegroup.co.uk/index.php?View=entry&EntryID=426

 

[Archaic59]

Lucky me. I put an MX 100 in my laptop several years back and it's been flawless. This issue is just with the M4?

 

[niborP]

Not sure, just thought it was worth spreading the article to warn anyone that might be effected of potential data loss.
Thought it was reprehensible that Crucial refused the guy (that posted it originally) the patch on the grounds that his was out of warranty! Imagine if OS manufacturer's did the same.

 

[drivinfast247]

Do operating systems have a warranty?

 

[niborP]

Do operating systems have a warranty?

Well........ I guess that IF they did.... It probably would depend on, how can I word this.... How you obtained them?
=-O

 

[fzabkar]

I don't understand. I followed the links from that Stone Group article all the way to Crucial's download page:

https://www.crucial.com/usa/en/support-ssd-m4-25-inch

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[niborP]

Well I guess the gist of it is, if you've installed a pre-2016 crucial M4 SSD then make sure you d/load the updates.
Here's the link to the original site I found it on, most of which is WAY over my head, but I thought it worth spreading so that anyone it might affect has a chance to backup their data..... Just in case ;-)
At the end of the day, when the solar flares/asteroids/aliens and the "see-i-told-you-so" doom sayers are proved right what use are ALL those backed up data stores anyway? ;-)

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