SSD Write Endurance 25nm Vs 34nm

[Hopalong X]

That's a real shame isn't it? Whatever happened to the SSD promise that the drives will become read-only and will not die the way all SSDs have died so far. So, none of the players implemented any fail-safes in any drive. What a shame! I would be better served with 200TiB writes and read-only for next 5 years instead of 400TiB and dead-for-good in a week after that.

Intels have no read only point as some others.
Once MWI-1 is reached data retention is not guaranteed and may be reduced.

When you reach MWI-1 on the Intels (and many of the others tested here) it is your call-
1) When to back it up.
2) Stop writing to it and use it as giant read only thunb drive.
3) Keep on writing.

I don't know exactly what the final write numbers will be on the Intel 320 but if memory serves it will be in the 600-800TB range.
MWI was exhausted at 190TB.
If this was a data retention test I think One_Hertz might have been overly aggresive with the "Writes".

Since this is an endurance test it died like a "Spartan".