Quote Originally Posted by Christopher View Post
Yes, yes they are.

But all of the factory bad blocks were laundered, and thrown back into the good pool, so really I think of it as only 11 erase fails... Based on similar drives, like my Vertex LE 100, 128 Turbo that I've peeped out, it's gonna look just like the original. Which is what I'm pretty sure it is, just tarted up with some new FW and a new plastic dress.
Quote Originally Posted by Christopher View Post
I wonder how it tracks with yours. I think my drive is good bit slower, but yours was run without TRIM for quite some time.

I did look at your drive's last stats and saw that your 1.6FW drive and my 1.7FW are using the same number of PE cycles vs. GB written, just a bit over 56GB/PE cycle.
Ok, for comparison...

Yes, mine ran on XP for 16 days with 53.38 TB written in that time. MWI was 64 and Avg Erase 1830. Ran on Windows 7 from that point on.

I had 8 Initial/Factory Bad Blocks to start with. I threw my first Erase Failure at 87.51 TiB with MWI 49 and Avg Erase at 2571.

At 11 Erase Fails I was at 701.57 TB and Avg Erase 12727. Also Program Fails was at 2.