Quote Originally Posted by johnw View Post
One thing I don't understand about Sandforce's throttling is how it determine how many years into the warranty the drive is. Does the SSD actually have a clock on board? If not, I guess it can only judge the passing of time by how many power-on hours it has had.
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That is one of the major things I'd like to know.

If there isn't such a internal clock, well, it would be a disaster imho and the drive would last "forever".