I heard that it if you put a SATA bus analyzer in the chain to try and analyze SF stability issues, you end up stopping the instability you're trying to detect. Maybe I can find one cheap on ebay :rolleyes:
EDIT
Forget that... they're seriously expensive... who would have thought?
PS
Here is the link to the Intel 320 PDF for enterprise use if you want to see what Intel has to say on the matter of workload timers.
http://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc...n-addendum.pdf