Quote Originally Posted by SynbiosVyse View Post
This seems counter-interuitive to me. If you have static data, wouldn't the NAND be unevenly used since some of the drive is dormant, hence, lower wear range delta? There will be a portion of the drive undergoing very few, if any, P/E cycles.

If you don't have static data, the drive will be evenly used because it is utilizing practically the whole drive.
If I remember correctly the delta between most-worn and least-worn was higher on the V2 when I used static data and it remained lower on the V3 with no static data. SF drives rotate static data, so presumably that would increase WA.

The really weird thing though is that the drive has not hit LTT.

Could you please run Anvil's app on 100% incompressible data just to make sure LTT has not kicked in and is being masked by compression. I'm sure write speeds would have dropped if LTT had kicked in, although at 46% it would not be by as much as I saw.

This is a retail drive?

Off topic a bit, but I've noticed that one of my Intel drives has gone from 98% back to 100% over the 12 months or so that I switched it out from being an OS drive to a drive that just contains static data. Quite strange, but it has definitely reverted back to 100%.