Quote Originally Posted by sergiu View Post
Could you also post a screenshot with SMART parameters for failed drive and the drive which is expected to fail in next hours? By sector I guess you are referring to a LBA 512Byte right? Also, have you tried to let the failed drive in idle and try again. In some document posted somewhere at the beginning of the thread I saw a wear model that stated a much higher endurance if some idle time is taken between consecutive writes.
Experiment is being done on a Linux box, that does not have Xorg installed.
I classify a sector as 4KB of continuous block of flash.
I will retest the drive in a few moments to check to see if the 90% sector failure is still true.
However the statement "much higher endurance if some idle time is taken between consecutive writes", would mean endurance is better if you don't write to the drive much.(duh and your car will not run out of gas as quickly if you don't drive it much)