Quote Originally Posted by Christopher View Post
What I found funny about the HET-MLC article was actually the fact that Intel states the write span of a 300GB 320 as only 30TB -- only 100 times it's capacity. That's like saying an X25-V can only write 4TB over it's life span. Talk about under-promising and over-delivering.
Those specs from Intel are most likely based on 4K random, full span, which is an entirely different scenario to what is being tested here.

@ Anvil: how about a version of the endurance test that runs 4K random, full span, just to give a comparison to what is being tested here? I’d be up for testing another SSD in that scenario.

Regarding the 710; spending $6.50/per GB when the only notable benefit is endurance is going to be a tough call regardless of application. Something that lasts that long, at that price, when SSD technology is still evolving doesn’t seem to make any sense at all.