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Wondering how long this Sandforce drive will last this time around ...

Indeed. Maybe OCZ SSD is good for gamers that always tweak their system drives but for reliability go with Intel, Crucial or Samsung. Forget OCZ and other such rebranders.

If you want to...

Thank you for the chart updates Anvil.

Any guesses as when the X25-V will RIP ?

Seems it likes to go slow and steady to its demise.

Exactly the thing I meant. I personally never had a HDD just disappear out of the blue like that.

SSD controllers have a long way to go till they mature like HDDs did. Early HDDs were just as bad...

Anybody has an idea why current SSD controllers are pretty bad at staying alive ?

Especially with the SF drives they cause BSOD, not detecting by BIOS or simply die. It seems that the controller...

Just wanted to drop a line in here to take the time to thank everybody for making this possible.

Anvil for the software code and the volunteers for the SSDs.

Sad to be stuck in the peanut...

Impressive that the X25-V still keeps working.

Have you tried to take it offline for a couple of days and see how that works out :rolleyes:

I bet it will not wake up from that "sleep".

What we really need is a C300 drive here.

Will probably own the M4.

The main things that affect endurance right now :

-capacity of drive
-SLC or MLC based
-lithographic process of...

Anyone got an idea when the next NAND die shrink is going to happen ?

I don't think 25nm is the limit. Maybe 22nm NAND is up next ?

Thanks !

Don't know about you but I am sick of controllers like Toshiba or older Samsung drives.

No SMART data at all :(

Indeed. This thread has shown us a couple of things till today :

-seems like the read only SSD is a total MYTH so people should have backups

-SF SSDs are not really reliable for endurance...

Typical controller failure.

Seems to be very common with SSDs of today ( especially SF drives ).

Maybe in the future SSDs will mature just like HDDs did ( they had problems in the early days...

Anyone here have a Larson Creek Intel 311 drive to test ?

I think it would be interesting due to small NAND size but SLC specification.

Nice read here for anyone that is interested : http://www.anandtech.com/show/5067/understanding-tlc-nand

Quite interested as to how that C300 256 GB died, UrbanSmooth.

Yeah, I saw the bleak NAND news. I have been saying this all along. You can only scale NAND to a certain level but we need a...

I really think we should get a C300 in here to complement the existing controllers.

I think that MTRON will last a LONG time. Hehe.

Good work Cristopher !

Really eager to see the small Mtron perform. Thanks !

Yeah seems like Intel has exited the controller market :(

Any news on a C300 ?

Thanks !

I hope you haven't missed the recent launch of the Intel 520 SSD ;)

OK. Looking forward to 26 April 2012 for the 830 retention results.

Well I think we ought to test the retention as well not only the write endurance. I bet that the X25-V will be totally dead after one week without any power going to its NAND.

Maybe we should see...

Try and take out the X25-V and see if it dies just like the others. I have noticed that as soon as you take out these drives and leave them for like a week unpowered the NAND cells loose charge and...

Any news of that Crucial C300 ? Anyone got another one that we can test ?

Any news of that Intel 520 ? It seems it is just rumors as of now.

What about SLC ? Or is that dead from long ago ?

Any reasonable priced X25-E successor with 34nm SLC NAND ?