Thanks, Anvil. So it's just as I thought. They don't even bother putting a p/e spec in their data sheet. That seems typical of Intel unfortunately. In this case it's not so bad because they are not selling the flash memory separately. I do find it annoying that IMFT doesn't seem to want to make their p/e specs public though. Based on their warranty it seems Intel has a very low opinion of the write endurance of their drives. It seems unlikely they would assume less than 5000 p/e c. for a 34nm chip so it looks like they are assuming a write amplification of about 5.5. Either that or they are, um, bending the truth for some reason. Some people, including IMFT IIRC, say that FUD about write endurance may be reducing the adoption of SSDs, but here we see Intel themselves implying that their drives will only write about 35 TB before suffering a premature death. Bullet, meet Foot.