Quote Originally Posted by One_Hertz View Post
139TB. 28%. Reallocated sectors up to 9. My reallocations are going up quite a lot lately.
I guess the wear leveling is not perfect.

Even if your drive failed right now that would mean over 142,000 GB of writes. I figure I would write no more than 30-40 GB per day to the drive, although I want to figure out a way to do a better estimate of my writes. If I assume 40 then 142,000/40 = 3550 days = 9.7 years which is a long time. And since I'd be buying either a 120 GB or 240 GB drive it should actually last me more like 30 - 60 years, which is nice. I just wish the price/GB would drop. It seems like the 25nm drives haven't dropped in price at all. In fact most of the time they seem to be more expensive than the 34nm version. For instance the 256 GB C300 is actually $10 more than the m4 on Amazon.

I really want to thank you guys for doing this testing. Somehow it has made me more gung ho about SSDs in general. It really does seem like Intel has somehow magically been able to get something like 5000 p/e c. from their 25nm chips, making me a lot less reluctant to get a drive that uses 25nm IMFT. I'm just waiting for the right sale to buy one. Probably either an Intel 510 or a Sandforce drive. Probably an Intel because I hate Sandforce's fascist warranty throttling policies and Intel SSDs will work better on OSes other than Win7 or Linux due to their SSD Optimizer software. That's also an advantage Intel has over those rather nice Crucial drives. Not everyone in the whole world runs either Win7 or Linux with TRIM. The problem is the Intel drives are way overpriced. The Crucial and Sandforce drives are priced much better. So I'll just wait. Maybe the 25nm price will drop when the 20nm IMFT drives are released.