OCZ Vertex preview: Interesting results!

[FischOderAal]

How in the world does it not? Who would put their warranty above the average lifetime of a product?

Common sense says you don't. Yet I don't see your point because in general products live several times longer than the warranty period. Heck, we still got a Sony HiFi in the house that is older than I am and a Thinkpad that was build in 1998 and still runs fine.

Warranty is nothing but a bonus that depends on the decision of the company and therefore a shorter warranty period proves nothing.

Has anyone here a USB-stick that failed? The german publisher Heise (c't and others) tested a 2GB USB-stick. They wrote it nearly full and compared the checksums after 50 writes.
http://www.heise.de/ct/08/21/122/
Up to that date each cell was written and deleted 12,240 times and 23,5 TB data was written and still the checksum was ok. Of course some cells might've died and the controller reallocated the data but still it shows that 10,000 times is not the end. Furthermore I'd guess that in USB-sticks you find cheap-ass chips...

Too bad I didn't find any more info how the test went on.

It does affect all SSDs. The cause is fragmentation of free space and all have the issue. There have been reports about this since forever, but mostly just single statements.

I only heard this issue together with Intels SSDs and the FusionIO, that's why I'm surprised it should affect each and every SSD.