SSD Write Endurance 25nm Vs 34nm

[Anvil]

I was too late for the post-office today so you'll have to wait until tomorrow for the fun to begin

I got mine today (about 40 minutes ago), not sure what gets connected first, the Vertex 4 or the Kingston or a few M3P's. (will be later tonight anyways)

Tthe M3P's have been sitting in their box for almost a week, the 1.03 FW looks to make my day though
(registered and got PlexTool last night!)

[Christopher]

Well, at first I though the host writes worked in 32MiB increments -- I had no way of knowing how much I had written to the M3P. However, I copied 5.8GB and was able to determine that it was just 64MiB. The Plextool doesn't show hostwrites in any form, which seems like an oversight. After upgrading to 1.03, the host writes were visible -- I'm sure it was there before, since it didn't reset to zero when I flashed.

Further, the Plextool also has a warning about temperature throttling! 1.03 adds temps somewhere, but it's not readily obvious. It's probably just a smart flag that toggles when temp is too high, but I'll investigate further.

[Anvil]

There could be loads of attributes that just aren't visible, the host writes attribute should be required on all drives.
(host reads as well)

[Anvil]

My Kingston has the 8860 firmware, there is a 8862 but neither is available for download.
Lets hope that B.A.T got the same one.
Strange that Intel never released anything newer than 8850, quite a few (me including) got a mix of firmwares for the X25-E.

[Christopher]

Samsung 830 256 Day 54

1,285,269.83 GiB
1,255.14 TiB

296.72 MB/s Average
1272 Hours

5583 Wear Leveling Count
MWI 1

2/0 Erase/Program Fail
Used Reserved Block Count: 4/8192 sectors


OCZ Vertex Turbo 64 Day 71

502,106.22 GiB
490.33 TiB

85.24 MB/s Avg
1761 hours

8972 Avg PE count
-97 MWI

6/0/2 Read/Program/Erase Fail

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The VT keeps getting read failures. This is not good.

The first VT's death was preceeded by a relatively massive number or read failures.

[Christopher]

My Kingston has the 8860 firmware, there is a 8862 but neither is available for download.
Lets hope that B.A.T got the same one.
Strange that Intel never released anything newer than 8850, quite a few (me including) got a mix of firmwares for the X25-E.

I have a mix too. The toolbox indicates that one of my Es running 8790 can be updated, but I'm not sure to what.

Was there any point to updating FWs for the Es?

[Anvil]

I believe the 88nn series fw fixed the "bug" where the drive could not recover when/if it started to slow down on writes.

[Christopher]

I believe the 88nn series fw fixed the "bug" where the drive could not recover when/if it started to slow down on writes.

Well I upgraded to 8850. Everything was great for about 4 minutes, until the drive failed. It's permanently locked -- detectable, but I can't SE it and can't re-flash.

!!!

[bluestang]

OCZ Vertex Turbo 64 Day 71

502,106.22 GiB
490.33 TiB

85.24 MB/s Avg
1761 hours

8972 Avg PE count
-97 MWI

6/0/2 Read/Program/Erase Fail

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The VT keeps getting read failures. This is not good.

The first VT's death was preceeded by a relatively massive number or read failures.

<100GiB left in the tank on that VT me thinks...hopefully I'm wrong.

[Christopher]

Good to hear from you, Bluestang -- But I can't handle any more bad news today.

[Anvil]

Well I upgraded to 8850. Everything was great for about 4 minutes, until the drive failed. It's permanently locked -- detectable, but I can't SE it and can't re-flash.

!!!

Weird, I'd leave it alone (disconnected) till tomorrow and then try a self test using smartmontools.

Never had issues with intel fw's except for on MBs that typically locks the drive. (Asus used to cause this phenomena)
I always HDDErase / flash old drives on a GB MB, it just works.

[Christopher]

The FW update was successful, I then booted from the drive (it had an install on it) and a few minutes in the system locked up, the HDD indicator was solid indefinitely. I tried SEing it in Windows (VHD service and the Intel Toolbox fail to progress through the detection phase). I gave it a shot with PartedMagic, and it showed the partition info, but any attempt to perform any activity on the drive fails.

I'll let the E sit for a day and try again.

[B.A.T]

My Kingston has the 8860 firmware, there is a 8862 but neither is available for download.
Lets hope that B.A.T got the same one.
Strange that Intel never released anything newer than 8850, quite a few (me including) got a mix of firmwares for the X25-E.

And now it's here



And it got fw 8860, same as you Anvil

[Anvil]

Thats's great!

It's got a different feel vs the original X25-E, somehow it feels more expensive/shiny.

[B.A.T]

That is hard to believe taken into account that this one cost a lot of $ less then the original X25-E.

[Anvil]

The sticker and surface is just more shiny.

My drive identifies as an Intel, a bit strange.

It had a power cycle count of 37 (38 now), Power On hours is at 30 and finally 6GB host writes. (probably just testing)

E9 Media Wearout is at 99.

[B.A.T]

Pretty much the same for mine.

[Anvil]

Looks pretty much identical to mine!

So, when do you plan on starting

edit:
there's no hurry, you've got plenty of time

[B.A.T]

Just did

[Anvil]

You should change to 46% (I just noticed)

I wonder what MB/s it can do, you'll know a bit more tomorrow!

How much static data is there?

[B.A.T]

I'll change it.
You got mail. I posted a full update for the first post.

[Anvil]

Got it, will update asap.
(most likely tomorrow morning)

[Christopher]

That is shiny!

I like shiny things.

[B.A.T]

Todays update:

m4
858.1841 TiB
3629 hours
Avg speed 74.52 MiB/s.
AD gone from 123 to 119.
P/E 14790.
MD5 OK.
Reallocated sectors : 00


Intel X25-M G1 80GB
603.28 TiB
22962 hours
Reallocated sectors : 154
Available Reserved space: 90
MWI=124
MD5 =OK
45.29 MiB/s on avg


Since the G1 has passed 600TiB I'll give it a 24h retention test.

[Christopher]

Not good.