Originally Posted by
canthearu
I've noticed the same thing, except on my drive it is more like 20gig after each loop begins. I posted a graph of the disk speed on the endurance thread as each loop happens.
I don't really think it is throttling, just the drive running out of blank NAND and having to go into a scavenge/recover mode. The really high speeds are the drive simply writing at full trot but not doing ANY garbage collection. Once it runs out of free NAND, it has to work twice as hard to clean NAND.
I'd be curious to see what happens if I could pause ASU for a minute half way through the loop, then let it continue.
IMO, I'm not much of a fan of the new firmware. Would rather slower, more consistent performance.
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