Timur, I agree there is a lot of second guessing in the absence of hard facts. Tomorrow I will try to clear things up by using real data and carefully monitoring SMART attributes. I will also be careful not to write anything in excess of the drive capacity without running a SE first.

The only hard fact I have seen is a graph in an Anantech review that showed the difference between host writes for a Win/ Office install against nand writes.

There are most likely a lot of variables so it will be hard to get to the bottom of it, but we can try.