Did you folks add the read/md5sum verification in the mix? It is possible that the drives are dead already as far as the usefulness of them is concerned. I mean in real world, you would likely RMA the drive on signs of corruptions, not continue to write.

And I am sick of this Sandforce crap! I hope they learn to not cheat and take the customers for fools like they do at this time. Talk of making a quick buck off of gullible customers! I mean 500MB/s writes? Yeah riiiiggggghhhht! More like 200MB/s. And then, of course throttle down to single digit MBs. Yeah awesomenessss!