Quote Originally Posted by Hopalong X View Post
Power cycle for three hours?

They are lucky they didn't kill some of the other hardware or cause a permanent Windows crash.
How many blue screens did they get in that 3 hours and have to reimage Windows.

If they were simulating Hot swapping that is say 30 times a minute x 60 min. x 3 hours = 5400 hot swaps.

Way beyond abusive to me either way.
There is nothing abnormal about it. I see a perfect parallel between this thread and the power cycle issue reported above. In both cases, we are trying to induce failure quicker than the normal use of the drive will do.

I hope Intel does write endurance testing and continuous power recycling test in a lab 24x7. Both are needed to claim reliability and life expectancy. With super capacitor added in 320, if Intel didn't do this power recycling test during QA in house, they made a huge mistake!

One more thing: Intel is lucky that it only takes 2-3 hours to reproduce the power issue. Intermittent issues are bane of the software world! Hard to reproduce and very difficult to fix! Any developer will tell you how frustrated they feel with intermittent issues!