Crucial MX100 SSD- Freezing in middle of my work ( MAC OS X 10.10.4)

Hello
I have Crucial CT256MX100SSD1 (256 GB) installed on my Macbook Pro 2011 OS X 10.10.4 I have used optimal bay for my HDD and I used SSD on primary SATA port. I used a software to clone all my data from HDD to SSD. I didn't have any issues with the Crucial SSD till today. I bought the SSD about 3/4 months ago. I used it perfectly everything worked flawlessly and till today my laptop started freezing or stopping in middle of my work (browsing on internet mainly . or opening up many safari tabs) then I waited couple minutes but still no change so i decided to TURN OFF by holding down power button but after i turned off it still doesnt boot up properly. My laptop get stuck on the APPLE booting page and it doesnt boot up but eventually even the apple logo disappears and it freezes again in white screen. It doesn't turn or boot back on. I tried many different methods RESET PRAM , RESET SMC but it just doesn't start back up. But I waited couple more minutes then it managed to turn back on finally. This happened to me almost 2 times now in row today. I am very worried for my data to be lost and not retrieved on the SSD. Please help me to get this solved. I am very unhappy with the current issue i am facing. I've read many people are having this issue. Does anyone have any solution. Please please help Model: Crucial_CT256MX100SSD1
Revision:MU01Capacity: 245.07 GB (245,066,539,008 bytes)
Available: 31.11 GB (31,106,969,600 bytes)

The drive was showing symptoms of Trim being turned off, combine this with the bug riddled MX100 MU01 firmware and that would make it difficult to have a stable Mac. Powering the drive off may have contributed to the problem of the Mac now not booting. Alternatively the MX100 has a hardware problem. Try the following: 1 Boot off your HDD with OS X 10.10.4 and the MX100 SSD connected as a secondary SATA drive. 2 Go to Disk Utility and see if you can Verify/repair the MX100 SSD. 3 Turn Trim on via the Trimforce enable command. 4 Backup your data. If you get this far, you should at least have your data. 5 Upgrade the MX100 to MU02, this is mandatory. 6 Test the MX100 7 Clean install with OS X 10.10.4. No need to rush this, you may consider a larger SSD as 31 GB is not much free disk space. Also OS X 10.11. is due for release which has improvements over OS X 10.10. http://www.macrumors.com/roundup/os-x-10-11/ Also note: MacBook Pro Repair Extension Program for Video Issueshttp://www.apple.com/uk/support/macbookpro-videoissues/

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