Quote Originally Posted by Christopher View Post
I've bought several older drives in the past week as they've been on sale, but the drives are either already in the test (like the X25-V and Vertex Turbo) or pretty similar (an Agility60 w/ 34nm Intel) or not really appropriate (like an X25 E). I'd be willing to put up the new Agility60 for destruction, but I think that the Patriot Torqx might be more interesting. If anyone has any ideas for a good 32GB -64GB to test, I'll order one to throw on the fire.
Your Agility60 would be interesting from another point of view: we could compare the evolution of failed blocks from two different batches of Intel 34nm and we could see how much reliability improves over time. Most probably we could trace manufacturing date (or at least an approximation) based on SSD manufacturing date and maybe NAND batch number if it has something like that.