SSD Write Endurance 25nm Vs 34nm

[Christopher]

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.

Well, I email my way into some FW updates for the MTRONs. I'm hoping I can flash the PRO 7025 back into business.

The Indilinxes are strange and wonderful sometimes, aren't they? The old one was finding at least one bad block every day, and after 40 hours the new one is still clean. That gives hope that the future is looking better for the new one. It is my hope that the Turbo can go where no 64GB has gone before, and perhaps I can learn something on the way.

UPDATE
They didn't send me the MTRON fw, just the flashers for the M-Classes. So that's a no go. If anyone knows where I can get MTRON firmware and how I can flash it, that would be helpful.