SSD Write Endurance 25nm Vs 34nm

[Christopher]

It won't be a real life test and 4KB is rather small by today's standards, 8KB is about the smallest there is for the typical database (Oracle, MS-SQL) on top of this, there is a *lot* of sequential writes.
(there are of course other workloads besides databases but they will most likely have a much larger block size)

I'll make some options on how to write, 4KB, 8KB, ..., as well as more options on size. (including full span)

This type of test is highly unlikely in any environment though.

We already know what Intel data-sheets tells.

100% 4KB writes, 100% span.
G2
80GB = 7.5TB
160GB = 15TB

G3
40GB = 5TB
80GB = 10TB
120GB = 15TB
160GB = 15TB
300GB = 30TB
600GB = 60TB

See, this completely puts the 30GB number for the 300GB 320 in context -- the article I read didn't mention anything like that. I wasn't even aware that Intel used the 4K full span method to rate their drives.

Now I feel extra, extra stupid.

[sergiu]

The guys from INTEL are real engineers and are specifying the worst conditions, no real life conditions. Nothing wrong with that, but also some real world expectation should be published, otherwise "average Joe" will read the specs, will see 15TB and will be scared on how low are the numbers. That "average Joe" might be your boss to which you requested a SSD replacement for your desktop at work and these specs will be the best reason to deny your request.