Quote Originally Posted by johnw View Post
I would not bet on it. I am becoming increasingly convinced that the write amplification on the Samsung is indeed about 5. And I guess (not convinced, but suspect) that smart attribute 178 normalized is the percentage of blocks left to be used for reallocation. When the pool of blocks available for reallocation is exhausted, the SSD should start having problems fast. If my guess for sa178 is correct, then the Samsung is on a countdown to write death, 72, 71, 70, 69....
I noticed the death countdown... but also this I suspect is just the pool of blocks for reallocation, not the total spare ones. Once this pool will be empty, it will probably start using the blocks from over provisioning which are a lot more at probably the cost of slower write speed. So if bad block count does not start to increase exponentially, then we will have a winner.