Crucial M4 64GB SSD hard drive unstable

April 30th, 2012

This morning my computer started acting funky presenting me with I/O errors on my root hard drive after a few minutes.  Turns out the Crucial’s M4 SSD drives have a firmware glitch in some versions where after a little over 5100 hours of operation the stop working reliably.  So I upgraded my firmware from 0009 to 000F and that fixed the problem.  After running a SMART test on the drive after the upgrade it noted that I had hit the magic number a few hours prior.