I'm surprised by the write speed. Anvil's app is mostly sequential. The Anantech review stated that even with a highly fragmenting work load write speeds would not drop. :confused:
"The SSDNow V+100 has wild swings in power consumption during our random write test ranging from 1.25W to 3.40W. The swings would happen several times in a window of a couple of seconds. The V+100 is aggressively tries to reorganize writes and recycle bad blocks, more aggressively than we've seen from any other SSD.
The benefit of this is you get peak performance out of the drive regardless of how much you use it, which is perfect for an OS without TRIM support - ahem, OS X. Now you can see why Apple chose this controller.
There is a downside however: write amplification. For every 4KB we randomly write to a location on the drive, the actual amount of data written is much, much greater. It's the cost of constantly cleaning/reorganizing the drive for performance."
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4010/k...lus-100-review
EDIT: Power consumption would be an interesting way to evaluate NAND wear.