scrosler Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 I just upgraded to a Corsair MP500 120 Gig and bought an Asus Z97-A/USB3.1 motherboard. This allowed me to keep my i7 4770k which is plenty fast for what I do. The SSD Toolbox and other utilities will not either secure erase or TRIM the drive. The SSD Toolbox will not even make an attempt to check for firmware update. And I cant have it auto over provision (Yes I know how to do it manually). I am using the latest build of SSD Toolbox (I downloaded it yesterday from the drives product page). However Windows 10 Build 14393 will TRIM the drive without issue. Or at least it says it does, seems a bit quick to TRIM to me. I would like to see why the functionality is missing from the SSD Toolbox and other Utilities such as Parted Magic for Secure Erase. The good news is... This drive is fast! Even at 2X PCIe lanes! Very happy with it! Here is my entire box.. Asus Z97-A/USB3.1 motherboardIntel Core i7 4770K overclocked to 4.4 GHZ (tried at stock speeds too)Corsair Carbide 200R CaseCorsair H100iGTX Water Cooler (yes, stuffed in the 200R!)Corsair 750 Watt Modular Power Supply (forget the model but its only a year old)Corsair MP500 120Gig as a boot driveNvidia Geforce 760 O/C Edition with 2 Gigs RAM16 Gigs of non-Corsair DDR3 Memory clocked 2100MHZWestern Digital WD20EARX 2 TB Data Drive Now here is a screenshot of the over provisioning page. As you can see its "not supported" What gives here? Could there be an NVMe drive I need to load. I looked the forum and came to understand Corsair does not have any special drivers so I dont think that is it. The motherboard is at the latest BIOS version and has NVMe support which is turned on and recognizes the drive as such. Any suggestions or a solid answer would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrosler Posted February 22, 2017 Author Share Posted February 22, 2017 Oh, just one last thing I am running Corsair SSD Toolbox 1.2.4.7 and all my drivers are up to date. ALL of them :c) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Technobeard Posted February 22, 2017 Administrators Share Posted February 22, 2017 Just updated the release notes sticky. It only currently supports Drive Information, with further support coming down the line. Looks like it doesn't support the MP500 yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrosler Posted February 22, 2017 Author Share Posted February 22, 2017 Ahhh! That's good, I think. At least it's not a system issue and rather a software issue. Just one thing, the product page advertised the functions I am missing as working. Copy and paste error by webdev? Thanks for your reply. Much appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Technobeard Posted February 22, 2017 Administrators Share Posted February 22, 2017 See my update. It looks ilke it doesn't support the MP500 series yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrosler Posted February 23, 2017 Author Share Posted February 23, 2017 Any ideas on how to Secure Erase at this time? And do you have a recommendation on Over Provisioning. As of now I went with 5 Gigs. Thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 You can take a look at Parted Magic for secure erasing the drive. https://partedmagic.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrosler Posted February 24, 2017 Author Share Posted February 24, 2017 You can take a look at Parted Magic for secure erasing the drive. https://partedmagic.com/ Thank you for the suggestion but if you read my OP I have already tried Parted Magic. Its my go-to ISO for any drive related issue. EDIT: I looked at the website and it now supports NVMe drives! Thanks a bunch for pointing this out! I am just so particular about my hardware and drives. I first learned of Secure Erase right here on the Corsair forums. I use it weekly along with back up software. My system always screams! Thanks again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrosler Posted February 24, 2017 Author Share Posted February 24, 2017 Yep, worked like a champ! Thanks for the info. When do you think the Corsair SSD Toolbox will be ready for this drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 Its hard to say as you do not know whether Corsair do intend to add support for the drive in the software, but as it is fairly new and a there new protocol, it may take a couple of months before something is seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrosler Posted February 24, 2017 Author Share Posted February 24, 2017 Well thanks again for the info on Parted Magic. Didint know he upgraded to support NVMe. I have a copy I bought right when he went commercial, about 2 years ago and it certainly did not have NVMe support. Right now I scrub with Parted Magic and restore with Aomei backupper and could not be any happier! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickael F. Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 Hi, i just bought a mp500 240gb only for game use , using the w10 generic driver this is what i can get : https://www.flickr.com/gp/137523664@N02/2qY953 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Links Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 If not a secret, tell please, is there a fan blowing on your ssd? In what M.2 slot (2_1, 2_2) have you installed it? Because my MP500 500Gb is 10c hotter than yours in Idle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickael F. Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 no fan around... i have a "be quiet" shadow rock 2 fan for my cpu (that i don't OC that much ~3,7 to 3,9 ghz) and just under the m2 slot is my gtx 1070 msi , maybe the twin frozer fan system is doing its job very well... my case is cooler master HAF XM , i just have a single m2 slot.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrosler Posted March 1, 2017 Author Share Posted March 1, 2017 If not a secret, tell please, is there a fan blowing on your ssd? In what M.2 slot (2_1, 2_2) have you installed it? Because my MP500 500Gb is 10c hotter than yours in Idle. Yes, mine is exactly 10 degrees hotter than his. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Links Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 Mine can go near 60c easy with a tiny bit of load. In some tests, that i saw in the internet, these drives go above 100c with heavy load/stress tests. On asus ROG forum there is a thread in witch people say about similar situations. Although however samsung drives users report about far less temperatures, about 32-38c. It would be a good idea for Corsair to release some kind of heatsink for those users, who are concern about their drive's health....and update the toolbox already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickael F. Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 i made a test tonight i played assetto corsa on my triple screen ( very high settings) the mp500 was at ~ 60°c after ~1h30 of online race... maybe with a dedicated corsair firmware (instead of the w10 generic ) the mp 500 would be more efficiently used... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Technobeard Posted March 2, 2017 Administrators Share Posted March 2, 2017 The firmware comes from the hardware manufacturer (Corsair). You may be thinking of the Windows 10 drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrosler Posted June 12, 2017 Author Share Posted June 12, 2017 Has the toolbox been udpated to support the MP500 series yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Links Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 Yeap! At least now I can confirm anytime, with the toolbox, that lazy corsair has still not updated the firmware. I don't believe, that there is nothing to fix or tweak. P.S I have talked to cust.support in live chat about a dedicated driver for MP500, and they said, that will work hard to do their best and make that driver. Cuz on windows 10 default driver, users get http://forum.corsair.com/v3/showthread.php?t=166579 this error. But I doubt soooooo much, that corsair will even bother... Maybe we should make a thread or start a sign collection? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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