Solid State Drives (SSD)

[Crucial_Katana]

Firmware 1916 has now been officially released and can from here on be dowloaded from the SSD Support page. Enjoy!

[Crucial_Katana]

Release Notes for Firmware 1916

• Fixed issue that sometimes causes firmware download problem
• Fixed issue that could cause 256GB to be corrupted
• Eliminated performance degradation over time with Wiper with 1819 FW
• Fixed issue where the power cycle count was incorrectly being reported with 1819 FW
• Fixed issue where some SATA 1 hosts weren’t correctly identifying the hardware
• Fixed issue found in simulation (not in the field) where the free block count was incorrectly being reported
• Fixed issue with remaining life not being properly displayed on SMART information
• Added support for additional NAND manufactures and capacities
• Made further improvements to wear leveling algorithm

[Crucial_Guru]

There have been a few questions asking if the firmware downgrade utility would work on drives with firmware other than 1711 installed.  Some have had success with this, and others have not.  Since the 1916 firmware added support for additional NAND manufactures and capacities, it is not advised to use the downgrade utility moving forward.  The older firmware versions will not have support  for the "additional NAND and capacities".