Quote Originally Posted by Ao1 View Post
What I was trying to say was that MWI is based on the theoretical P/E cycles for NAND. What this thread is showing is that actual P/E capability is significantly more. The Samsung looked like it kept writing until the P/E capability was physically deleted. The 1 year data retention duration however is most likely based on expiry of the theoretical P/E cycles, rather than physical depletion.
Ah, okay, that makes more sense than what you wrote before!

So, you think that if I had stopped writing to the SSD when MWI hit the failure threshold (which was probably around 5000 erase cycles), then we could have expected one year unpowered data retention. But since I wrote well past MWI threshold, all bets are off and it could last much less than a year. I think that may be the correct way to look at it.

It will be interesting to see what One_Hertz finds.