Quote Originally Posted by Christopher View Post
Why am I having such bad luck with drives as of late? Hopefully, the new Turbo is the first in a new wave of more successful drives.
Because the drives don't have the name Intel in them :P

Well, the vertex turbo (barefoot) should be returned under warranty if you can and haven't already. Performed well below spec. Hopefully this one will give a good show. Unfortunately, the barefoot controller has always had a lot of weird and wonderful behaviours.

The 2nd MTRON drive was likely just bad luck or bad programming on the effort of the drive's creators.

If I was going to add a new drive to the burning, it would have to be an ocz petrol or a drive with 20nm NAND. A corsiar performance pro would also be a good drive, but they are only 128gig and the pricing is kinda scary for something that is going to be endurance tested to death.