Crucial M4 crash

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Pierre Reynard

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Crucial M4 crash

PostFri Oct 18, 2013 7:46 pm

Today the worst have arrived, i have shot this morning , and after eating, i decide to take my BMCC and see my shots, and the ssd won't show up. The LCD screen keep telling me that no ssd are in the camera. And when i come home, i plug the crucial on my dock and my mac says that the disk is not readable. It's impossible to have my shots back, impossible to format the disk, this crucial M4 is dead.

What do you think ? The camera can damage the ssd or the ssd is the problem ?

Sorry for my english

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Pierre
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Brian Gulliver

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Re: Crucial M4 crash

PostTue Oct 22, 2013 4:10 am

Not all M4's SSD's will work depending on the firmware. There is only one firmware that BM approved so check that your M4 SSD has the right firmware.

"The following SSDs are known only to work with specific firmware versions:
Crucial 512GB M4 (firmware 009 only) (CT512M4SSD2)"

Check out the official list of SSD's BM has approved.
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Re: Crucial M4 crash

PostWed Oct 23, 2013 7:52 am

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Re: Crucial M4 crash

PostWed Oct 23, 2013 5:58 pm

Have you been maintaining your SSD properly?

One big issue is that TRIM isn't pushed via the camera (even though it's capable of doing so, technically). Mac TRIM support is spotty (as I've read, I don't use OSX), and on PC exFAT isn't a supported format for TRIM optimization without something like O&O (and even then, it's a scheduled optimization that can't be induced manually).

Every decision BMD has made regarding the SSDs seem to work against keeping them alive.

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