Originally Posted by
sergiu
I agree that throttling is crap, more an unnecesary sollution, but I see Sandforce as a state of the art controller. For example, let's say you are a programmer and you are working with databases or large java heap dumps. These kind of files are compressing to a level around 3-10% with 7zip. With a Sandforce based SSD you will be able to write and read these files at about 500MB/s and still use probably less than one fifth of the wear any other SSD would endure. You could achieve probably the same thing with Windows if you activate archiving, but this would be a software solution that would use your CPU power. Once I used my SSD at work in heavy database tasks. I successfully wrote around 150GB (host writes) in 8 hours yet I had not seen any change in flash writes counter, which is increasing 64GB increments. I personally do not imagine any "normal" usage that would create a sustained high write speed which would activate a severe throttling. Even if it would be used as a cache for some slower HDDs, it would probably still have plenty of idle time with only reads.
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