Quote Originally Posted by Christopher View Post
Ao1, to my knowledge, there is no other FW available. Perhaps early PM830 drives for Dell and Lenovo had other FW, but not the consumer 830. I think I could replicate the issue with another identical drive, but if you're right about throttling, then it will happen to all drives.

Why would reads get throttled at 5000PE cycles? I think after the update today, I'll do some performance benches.

(Also, the drive isn't really using all that many fewer PE cycles per day -- surely true throttling would do something more... invasive to prevent rapid PE cycle consumption)
I don’t think it is anything to do with throttling. Perhaps it is something to do with the huge jump that occurred in 177, which is clearly a bug. One minute the value was 129 and the next it was 5,444. That probably set off a few alarm bells. Who knows what internal housekeeping that might have triggered. Without extensive testing it might be hard to replicate and find the cause.The best bet is for Samsung to comment on the 177 update bug and give an opinion on the cause of the slow down.