SSD Write Endurance 25nm Vs 34nm

[Christopher]

Actually, I found some Western Digital Silicon Edge Blue 64gb drives for $60 plus shipping. They use a WD branded controller with Samsung flash, but the controller may be a custom JMicron unit with 512MB of DDR2. Also showing up in retailers, the new Vertex Plus drives pair Indilinx controlled, Arrowana FW with 25nm IMFT. They're not very fast, but supposedly the Vertex Arrowana FW that was scheduled to be released as an upgrade for OCZ Indilinx Vertices and Agilities vastly improved some performance aspects (OCZ said 500% increase in small randoms back in May). So those drives and the Phison controlled Patriots are the only oddball SSDs I can think of at the moment. I'm going to buy one of these drives tomorrow night or Monday morning, unless someone really wants me to test a brand new Agility 60 1.6FW 34nm IMFT instead. I want something different from what was already being tested, but with a combination of good write speed and capacity to wear the drive out before the end of time. I think Anvil has a 32GB SLC WD Silicon Edge that uses the same controller as the MLC version, but I think the results were unsatisfactory with the write load, IIRC.