Quote Originally Posted by jcool View Post
Speaking of the X25-E... here's my 32GB one with the most host writes. MWI of 90 still at 580TB written:

I've noticed that one of my Intel drives jumped from 200 power on hours to 400... in about 3 hours. Luckily, the X25-E I got on Ebay only had 288GB of host writes... not that it matters. 600TB is really only like 2% of what an the drive could probably write if you look at Intel's spec vs. reality. I think my X25-Vs will last for 700,000GB of host writes, vs whatever Intel rated them for. I really, really think Intel low-balls PE cycles for all of their drives. For instance, I read a short article about Intel's forthcoming HET-MLCs...

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/21644

This is laughable. The author (I respect this site by the way) states that Intel claims a 320 series, 300GB drive is capable of writing a massive... 30TB in its lifetime? And that with 30x the endurance, 710 series 300GB drives should be capable of writing 1.1PB...

It's good for a laugh.