[QUOTE=Anvil;5006827]Great!
We should agree on some standard way of reporting from now on. (like Ao1 suggested some time ago)
(before you both start testing the new drives)

Next is to find what data retention does for the drives when MWI is at "0" and we have already started doing some tests on this and all is a result of what has happened so far in the thread.

If you are looking for an SSD in the near future you can safely select any of the modern drives used in this test.
So in general, the drive to go for depends a bit on your usage, if you do a lot of incompressible data then you should go for a drive without compression."

As a scientist I love this stuff, but as a consumer I'm still left with questions.
Windows Skydrive excel would be great.

I guess for me, I want to use a drive with Intel's SRT. I want to get two drives one for OS install and one for caching my 5900 drives. I don't want it so small as Intel's 30gb drive, but OCZ Synapse Cache is not up my alley either.

So I guess if I took a stab at the graph, with shear number of writes (1Petabyte)and data retention, that Crucial M225 looks like the ticket. I like the M4 the best but it just up and dying like that has me cringing, "N" of 1 yeah I know, probably an isolated case.