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Well, I played around a bit longer... Downloaded ThrottleStop and noticed that CPU-Z isn't showing CPU frequency correctly after all. ThrottleStop clearly shows the CPU multiplier throttling down...

You were right on the money. It pushed 4k reads/writes past where I thought they'd go on this machine -- not quite to where I had them on my desktop, but further than I was able to push them...

Good suggestion. I plugged it in and set the power profile to "High Performance" and then made sure minimum CPU state was set to 100%.

Only a very slight improvement to single threaded 4k perf.:...

I was under the impression that my 256GB Samsung 830 would have little perceivable performance loss moving it from a Sandy Bridge Z68 desktop motherboard to the Sandy Bridge mobile chipset found in...

I'm a bit perplexed by the 830 result. Isn't it just as important to overall longevity when the drive stops being capable of being power cycled reliably rather than just when the NAND happens to be...

Christopher, how many sectors are there on the 830 to re-allocate to? Can we extrapolate out the (fairly steady?) reallocation rate and predict when it should run out of space and finally keel over?...

Is the 830 going to hit 6PB at this block failure rate?

Incidentally, looks like a typo on the WLC number...

I dunno, so far as I can tell, manufacturers set MWI completely arbitrarily. You'll notice the drive used up exactly no reserved space in that time. It could still easily hit 3k P/E cycles, but Intel...

Really? What else would kill it? An electrical surge? A blown capacitor? The drive controller chip wearing out?

As far as PE cycles go, would you say that your drive is indicative of what one...

Christopher, I have a Samsung 830 256GB and have been following this thread closely in recent days... Would it be safe to say that the MWIs for most of these drives are 1. arbitrarily chosen by the...