SSD Write Endurance 25nm Vs 34nm

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** Apparently, I'm not S.M.A.R.T. enough to reset the workload timer on my Intels with Smartctl... **

Did you try this command to reset the values?

smartctl -t vendor,0x40 /dev/pd0

(pd0 is the drive indentify and is user variable. In my case pd0 = C drive on SATA Port 0)

If the command works you should see this:

C:\Program Files (x86)\smartmontools\bin>smartctl -t vendor,0x40 /dev/pd0
smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [i686-w64-mingw32-win7(64)-sp1] (sf-win32-5.41-1)

Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

=== START OF OFFLINE IMMEDIATE AND SELF-TEST SECTION ===
Sending command: "SMART EXECUTE OFF-LINE IMMEDIATE subcommand 0x40".
Drive command "SMART EXECUTE OFF-LINE IMMEDIATE subcommand 0x40" successful.

After an hour the values should change. I just ran it to make sure it worked. I only ran it for 80mins and the amount of writes were so low they did not even register. (This is on an X25-M btw)

(E2) 226 – 0 (0/1024 = 0.000%).
(E3) 227 – 79 (79% Reads)
(E4) 228 – 80 (80 minutes)