Quote Originally Posted by groberts101 View Post
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I will say this quickly though. There is MUCH confusion about the "time calculations" being used to determine when lifetime throttling will be implemented. Time has absolutley nothing to do with it(at least at this level of throttle, although "hammered states" may very well rely on the time/data size correlation). It has to do strictly with the capacity of the drive in question. EVERY first gen Sandforce drive WILL throttle IMMEDIATELY when all nand has been touched because the required GC map has been fully formed.
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If you SE a drive that was previously throttled and the drive were to slow down before all capacity had been rewritten once more?.. then you have other issues at play. Won't even begin to speculate as to why that would occur(though I did a bit in the above link)
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Your "who" is wrong here, although the "how" is right-
There is a performance drop(also can be called a 'hammered state') when going from a blank slate (brand new or secured erased drive) to a 'semi-dirty' state where all flash LBA have been written to, especially random 4k uncompressed data (worst case).
This isn't 'lifetime throttling'.
The lifetime/warranty throttling is entirely based on power-on time versus flash writes.