http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/intel-issues-firmware-update-for-ailing-x18-m-and-x25-m-ssds/ Engadget Comments for Intel issues firmware update for ailing X18-M and X25-M SSDs http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/intel-issues-firmware-update-for-ailing-x18-m-and-x25-m-ssds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/intel-issues-firmware-update-for-ailing-x18-m-and-x25-m-ssds/Apr 13th 2009 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/intel-issues-firmware-update-for-ailing-x18-m-and-x25-m-ssds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/intel-issues-firmware-update-for-ailing-x18-m-and-x25-m-ssds/
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531&p=8 If you wan't to know exactly how it works]]>Apr 13th 2009 7:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/intel-issues-firmware-update-for-ailing-x18-m-and-x25-m-ssds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/intel-issues-firmware-update-for-ailing-x18-m-and-x25-m-ssds/
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3535

All Intel did was to change/introduce a scavenging mechanism to move the blocks/pages around to free up more consecutive blocks for sequential I/O.

IMHO, they didnt "fix it", they simply made it better.
It's a brave new world people, not everyone is an expert yet, not even Intel.]]>Apr 13th 2009 8:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/intel-issues-firmware-update-for-ailing-x18-m-and-x25-m-ssds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/intel-issues-firmware-update-for-ailing-x18-m-and-x25-m-ssds/
Glad to hear Intel is working on addressing the issue regardless though. Personally I'm waiting on bigger devices from them. I would love to switch to an SSD, but I need more than 160GB. How about a 250GB+ drive Intel?]]>Apr 13th 2009 9:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/intel-issues-firmware-update-for-ailing-x18-m-and-x25-m-ssds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/intel-issues-firmware-update-for-ailing-x18-m-and-x25-m-ssds/
If you don't mind me asking, but what the hell do you need that much, really fast, storage for?]]>Apr 15th 2009 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/intel-issues-firmware-update-for-ailing-x18-m-and-x25-m-ssds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/intel-issues-firmware-update-for-ailing-x18-m-and-x25-m-ssds/Apr 13th 2009 7:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/intel-issues-firmware-update-for-ailing-x18-m-and-x25-m-ssds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/intel-issues-firmware-update-for-ailing-x18-m-and-x25-m-ssds/Apr 13th 2009 7:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/intel-issues-firmware-update-for-ailing-x18-m-and-x25-m-ssds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/intel-issues-firmware-update-for-ailing-x18-m-and-x25-m-ssds/Apr 13th 2009 8:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/intel-issues-firmware-update-for-ailing-x18-m-and-x25-m-ssds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/intel-issues-firmware-update-for-ailing-x18-m-and-x25-m-ssds/Apr 13th 2009 7:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/intel-issues-firmware-update-for-ailing-x18-m-and-x25-m-ssds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/intel-issues-firmware-update-for-ailing-x18-m-and-x25-m-ssds/Apr 13th 2009 8:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/intel-issues-firmware-update-for-ailing-x18-m-and-x25-m-ssds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/intel-issues-firmware-update-for-ailing-x18-m-and-x25-m-ssds/]]>Apr 13th 2009 8:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/intel-issues-firmware-update-for-ailing-x18-m-and-x25-m-ssds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/intel-issues-firmware-update-for-ailing-x18-m-and-x25-m-ssds/
It's nice that the update didn't wipe out the contents of my drive, unlike updates for OCZ drives.
]]>Apr 13th 2009 9:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/intel-issues-firmware-update-for-ailing-x18-m-and-x25-m-ssds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/intel-issues-firmware-update-for-ailing-x18-m-and-x25-m-ssds/Apr 13th 2009 9:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/intel-issues-firmware-update-for-ailing-x18-m-and-x25-m-ssds/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/intel-issues-firmware-update-for-ailing-x18-m-and-x25-m-ssds/1. I wonder if this has resolved the issue where Macs running Boot Camp could not see the drive. You could run OS X on the X-25M and you could run Windows as a VM, but you couldn't boot directly to Windows natively.
2. On the forums discussing the above Boot Camp issue, I saw numerous posts where people were claiming the X-25M was not firmware upgradeable. Glad to see they were wrong!

Does anyone know if item 1 is now fixed?]]>Apr 14th 2009 2:47PM