SSD Write Endurance 25nm Vs 34nm

[bulanula]

To be fair to SF, I have no idea why this is happening and could have more to do with endurance testing. I've made a few adjustments and hopefully this will stop the crash behavior.

I may pick up another 2281 to use as a normal drive to see what happens -- the 2281 may be uniquely unsuitable for endurance testing in this fashion.

Come on, this behaviour ( sandforce sudden death syndrome to be precise ) was present all the way from SF1 to SF2 now. It is not related to any endurance test otherwise the other controllers being tested would have done the same. It is a SF specific issue that they just cannot be bothered to fix. SF is the fastest out there ATM but if you want reliability go Intel. This kind of stuff happens with fast SF2 drives. And they even dared to say all was fixed in SF2. What a joke !

Don't get me wrong, I'm not hating SF. After all, it really is the fastest controller out there and one of the most advanced ( easily gets typical 0.6 WA by compression ). The problem is with the vendors ( like OCZ ) messing the SF reputation and trying to shaft consumers making a quick buck. Somebody big like Intel should buy out SF and drop OCZ out the gate. SF + big company resources like Intel's or Samsung = pure win.