That has been Turbotized already. I did them at the same time since I was running them in RAID 0. I'll have to take a closer look at 1.7 then. Thanks!
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Thank you for the detailed reply :) That did explain lots of things! (I cannot add "Thank You" onto your post yet)
Though I know it'd be luxury to destroy a large SSD, I'm interested in the endurance (and related algorithms) of the 8k-page-sized models, such like the M4 256G and 512G. It is suspected that the M4 controller is not taking good care of WL and WA and may lead to early death of certain blocks of the 8k-page-sized nand flash. I'd be interested to see how an M4 256G/512G goes compared against the M4 64G in the normalized chart.
Kingston SSDNow 40GB (X25-V)
536.11TB Host writes
Reallocated sectors : 05 14
Available Reserved Space : E8 99
POH 4863 hours
MD5 OK
33.83MiB/s on avg (~35 hours)
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Corsair Force 3 120GB
01 92/50 (Raw read error rate)
05 2 (Retired Block count)
B1 47 (Wear range delta)
E6 100 (Life curve status)
E7 10 (SSD Life left)
E9 499272 (Raw writes) ->488TiB
F1 664530 (Host writes) ->649TiB
MD5 OK
106.44MiB/s on avg (~120 hours)
power on hours : 1900
WRD has been locked at 47 for the last few days, unusual!
edit:
@bluestang
I just checked my (X25-V) and it has done 37565 loops but that does not include any loops before May 31st (that's when the loops started to get recorded) and so there is missing 14-15 days of loops + a few unexpected reboots during the SF issues.
166,624,167 files has been created and deleted :)
Yeah, I'm sure we are all missing some log info for various reasons...most of it out of our control.
287,950,582 files created/deleted for me :)
Edit:
System was totally locked up when I got in. The culprit...most likely the M225.
C5-Read Failure Block Count jumped from 27 to 37.
Most of the RF's are on Bank 5.
If the M225 makes it to 1 PB, it will do it kicking and screaming the whole rest of the way :)
Edit2:
@RyderOCZ...care to give me an idea on how many bad blocks the 1.6 Turbo FW has budgeted?
Had to wipe disk partion, sanitary erase, full format and run CHKDSK /R to get M225 accessible to endurance test again.
Copied static data back over and ASU ran for just under an hour (.82 to be exact) doing 25 loops @ 118.84 MB/s before ASU stopped with "Write Error 0" and drive subsequently dropped out from system again.
C5-Read Failure Block Count went to 43 during this time.
There is very little lost as each loop is stored (and the totals can be recalculated), still it could mean thousands of files and a few GiB per loop, I expect I could have lost up to 50GiB of writes, all in all that is nothing vs the amount of writes that has been performed.
It looks like the M225 will need a lot of care and attention to get past 1PB, let's keep our fingers crossed.
https://www.box.com/shared/static/p2...oq3lqxgz1a.jpg
https://www.box.com/shared/static/gl...8jd9ka09n6.png
Ummm, not sure this is a suitable test candidate. I'm not sure this drive is suitable for anything.
It's some random Patriot 32GB. The chassis is quite nice, but what's inside seems to be awful.
What controller and NAND?
Phison controller with some kind of Toshiba NAND.
I'm almost 10 minutes in to the first loop and its only written 4GiB. Definitely not a suitable testing drive. I don't know what it would be suitable for... Its basically a Compact Flash card in a 2.5 inch form factor.
The drive's chassis is maybe the most attractive I've seen, but this is the first SSD I've ever wished ill upon. J.Microns are better than this by a long way I think, and they're not very good.
https://www.box.com/shared/static/ty...u0cfbehatk.jpg
This... is sad. I wasn't expecting much, but this is unimaginably terrible.
Shame on Patriot for ever thinking these drives were a good idea. And this is with the "good" Version 3FW.
This is a Hall of Shame drive. It's going in the closet, never to be spoken of again.
Samsung 830 64GB Update, Day 3
FW:CXM01B1Q
GiB written:
[B]27270.80/B]
Avg MB/s
107.83
Per-day average:
9090.27
https://www.box.com/shared/static/2b...53p8pydndc.jpg
@Christopher
Looks like the patriot don't support ncq. There is no scaling from 4K to 4K16QD on both read and write.
Todays update:
Kingston V+100
283.3777 TiB
1288 hours
Avg speed 25.29 MiB/s
AD still 1.
168= 1 (SATA PHY Error Count)
P/E?
MD5 OK.
Reallocated sectors : 00
http://www.diskusjon.no/index.php?ap...tach_id=471132
It has dropped out again. This is the 4th time the last week. There is someting wrong with this one. I'm home again tomorrow and I think I'll try an SE and see what happens.
Intel X25-M G1 80GB
108,5066 TiB
19458hours
Reallocated sectors : 00
MWI=64 to 56
MD5 =OK
46.66 MiB/s on avg
http://www.diskusjon.no/index.php?ap...tach_id=471130http://www.diskusjon.no/index.php?ap...tach_id=471129
m4
20.1124 TiB
73 hours
Avg speed 81.55 MiB/s.
AD gone from 93 to 89.
P/E 346.
MD5 OK.
Reallocated sectors : 00
http://www.diskusjon.no/index.php?ap...tach_id=471131http://www.diskusjon.no/index.php?ap...tach_id=471128
Still trying to access the M225 since the "Write Error 0" crash and drop out a couple hours ago.
Nothing I have tried in the to get it back has worked this time.
I'll keep trying!
Last CrystalDiskInfo screenshot is from yesterday afternoon. I'd really hate to lose the SMART data by D-flashing. System does recognize it as YADAPONG whatever with the jumper on though. As a last resort I'll try D-flashing tomorrow maybe...MF'er!
I have read about and have seen a U.S. national TV news story on similar drives coming out of PRC.
No links I don't remember where I saw the news stories.
They ran the gammet from cheap clones of name brands all the way to a USB thumb drive wired up inside an SSD case.
Get home and find you have a 4GB SSD- well a thumb drive NAND inside anyway. :shocked:
Seems like more work than it would be worth to the scammers.
I should point out that the product description didn't include the model... it had been de-labeled, and no mention of the controller was given in the product description. It was refurbished by Patriot, and all of their refurbished SSDs for sale have refurbished part numbers, like RF32SSD, where the RF stands for refurbished. It's a legit product, just not very fast. I was amazed that in 2009/2010 someone at Patriot thought that the Phison controller was going to be a good product.
No, the Phison controller just sucks. It's really just a Compact Flash/SD-style controller adapted for use in SSDs. The PS-100 is actually assembled in America like other Patriot products. It has Toshiba NAND (maybe the 40nm stuff) and the chassis is fantastically beautiful. There's just not much going on in the controller area. But the controller and NAND are made in Japan and the drive still has some kind of warranty.
Actually, I dated a girl for six months who had a really nice chassis too. She didn't did have much going on upstairs, either. She wasn't nearly as cheap as the refurbished Patriot though.
I will. I'll post some pictures.
I've seen the inside of one from a review (which also pointed out that it wasn't very good).
https://www.box.com/shared/static/dy...e4occ96648.jpg
I've voided the 30 day warranty.
https://www.box.com/shared/static/6l...ee1ioxxznl.jpg
The details are hard to capture, but it's a nice looking chassis.
https://www.box.com/shared/static/9t...x3li4ibfue.jpg
Those are TH58NVG5D2ETA20 Toshiba chips, Phison PS3016-S3 controller, Hynix cache
https://www.box.com/shared/static/tz...8eshhv8qyp.jpg
I assume it was originally built in Taiwan, then refurbished in Texas.
EDIT.
So I'm still confused and bewildered by the Phison controlled Patriot. I was wondering what performance would be like with SLC NAND. I imagine it would not be much better.
So I've bought a brand-new 3M Imation S-Class 32GB Phison controlled SLC drive super cheap. I expect to be disappointed by that drive too, but at least it was cheap and has SLC. Maybe it will be a good contender for a new endurance drive (but I'm not getting my hopes up).
Has anyone ever used an Imation S-Class 32GB? It's sure as hell no X25-E, but maybe it's better than the Phailzon 100 Patriot.
I wanted something quirky and off the beaten path to test, and the Patriot let me down. How does any SSD have worse random performance than a Quantum Fireball HDD from 15 years ago? I couldn't complete a run of AS SSD on the Patriot, it would just hang on the random write section. Sequential speeds are decent, but if you encounter any kind of random access, watch out. I don't know if its just starved for cache or if the controller and firmware are just that bad.
Kingston SSDNow 40GB (X25-V)
539.08TB Host writes
Reallocated sectors : 05 14
Available Reserved Space : E8 99
POH 4890
MD5 OK
34.40MiB/s on avg (~25 hours)
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Corsair Force 3 120GB
01 79/50 (Raw read error rate)
05 2 (Retired Block count)
B1 46 (Wear range delta)
E6 100 (Life curve status)
E7 10 (SSD Life left)
E9 506372 (Raw writes) ->495TiB
F1 673981 (Host writes) ->658TiB
MD5 OK
106.47MiB/s on avg (~145 hours)
power on hours : 1925
WRD decreased by 1 from 47 to 46.
^ Well, hopefully the Force 3 can break 1PB :up: