@ groberts101

According to my guestimates in post #27 you will need to write at least 10.75GB per "power on hour" to see throttling in the form I have experienced. You are nowhere close to that based on your SMART data. (I actually wrote ~28,352 GB in 168 power on hours)

If a SE has restored the performance of that particular drive it is unlikely it had anything to do with this form of throttling that I have experienced.

Also throughout running Anvils app there was not a significant slow down in performance. Overall performance was constant UNTIL throttling kicked in. When that happened write speeds dropped very quickly. (Over a few seconds)

Now you might say that for whatever reason my numerous attempts to SE using three different apps across 2 PC's was a failure.

Here is the kicker. Immediately after a SE write speeds were throttled. If the drive was degraded or throttled because the SE failed, why were speeds restored with nothing more than 1 hour of idle time?