Originally Posted by
Vapor
Intel X25-V had 4 reallocated blocks before the Intel 320 had any....and now the 320 has 69 compared to just 6 from the X25-V. I'm not sure reallocations mean anything until the counter really begins to move consistently. So far, only the Samsung 470 and the Intel 320 have had any sort of consistent increases with the reallocation counter.
The C300 has 1 reallocation (and hasn't moved for nearly 200TiB) and the m4 has 0 reallocations...in addition to their respective initial bad blocks (bad blocks found by Crucial during burn-in). Not much to go off of there, if the other drives are any indication :p:
That said, I do expect the m4 to die a little sooner (or a lot sooner if you go by write days--m4 is noticeably faster). WA is a little higher and the NAND is rated for only 60% of the lifetime the C300's NAND is rated.
m4 has effectively worn out its MWI twice whereas the C300 hasn't even worn it out once. Despite that, I feel both the C300 and the m4 still have many days left in their lifetime....the Samsung 470 effectively wore out its MWI 8 times and it took ~5x MWI lifetimes for the reallocations to begin to move consistently.