Ao1,

I think once MWI expires you have a choice to make. How fast did you get to 0 MWI? If the answer is 1 week, then you're going to have problems sooner rather than later. If it takes you 19 months to get to MWI 0, you're probably still golden. Somehow, I'm only writing about .3 to .7GB a day to my main system drive in my primary desktop over the course of 8 to 12 hours a day that this particular system is on. But really, if you can write under 100GB a day to your drive, I think it should last quite some time. Should you find yourself writing 10+TB a day to a drive, it's not going to last long in any event. Had I spread out the 486TB host writes of the Mushkin over the span of 12 -24 months, it wouldn't really be a problem and would most likely make it to the end of warranty. Large numbers of host writes probably aren't a problem unless they pile up quickly.

Some of the drives, like the 40GB Intel units, just can't write fast enough to commit suicide, while other seem to be heading inexorably towards disaster. Maybe there is some sound logic to OCZ's insistence that SF drives have LTT.