Quote Originally Posted by gojirasan View Post
IIRC, Tony has stated that the Vertex LE is the only SandForce drive which has a completely transparent SMART statistic for life throttling. As in it will actually tell you explicitly when it is in the throttled state.
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Quote Originally Posted by Ao1 View Post
@ gojirasan. SMART Attribute 230 (E6) will tell you if the drive is throttled, but that attribute is hidden from view. Seems that is the case for the LE as well.
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230/E6 is only available on SF-1500/2500/2600 series controllers/firmware

Quote Originally Posted by johnw View Post
At the top, it says power-on hours are 1288. But SMART attribute 0x09 is 90237262890248 power-on hours
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Its only the lowest 4 binary nibbles of that raw value that are power-on hours.
The upper 4 binary nibbles of that raw value are the number of milliseconds since last Power-on hours update.