Sandforce Life Time Throttling

[Ao1]

You obviously haven’t been following the endurance thread. So far out of the 4 different SF vender drives that have been tested only OCZ drives have been throttled.

Intel specify what work load is covered by the 5 year warranty. If you exceed that by an excessive margin you void the warranty.

Regardless of how unlikely it is that someone could induce throttling the word "enthusiast" and "throttling" don’t mix.

What is the proprietary Indilinx Ndurance Technology by the way? Another form of throttling writes? If an Octane was put in the endurance thread will it become throttled at some stage?

[Christopher]

You obviously haven’t been following the endurance thread. So far out of the 4 different SF vender drives that have been tested only OCZ drives have been throttled.

Intel specify what work load is covered by the 5 year warranty. If you exceed that by an excessive margin you void the warranty.

Regardless of how unlikely it is that someone could induce throttling the word "enthusiast" and "throttling" don’t mix.

What is the proprietary Indilinx Ndurance Technology by the way? Another form of throttling writes? If an Octane was put in the endurance thread will it become throttled at some stage?

The way I understand the 520 as far as warranty is concerned is this:

Retail box units get a blanket 5 year warranty.
OEM units get 5 years or until MWI = 0, which ever comes first.

Previously, if you had purchased a 320 OEM, you'd just get one year. But that was the only way to get 7mm drives (OEM boxed units). Its good to see they've changed it.



No SF vendor, except OCZ, uses LTT as far as I know. No one is using throttled IOPS anymore either. I don't know whether the OCZ 2281s are still using it, but I don't think anyone wanted to gamble on that.

[Ao1]

Intel’s warranty is a “limited” warranty. Limited generally implies that the warranty is subject to limitations, conditions and exclusions.

Intel publish how much a client SSD can write per day for the duration of the warranty. If you exceed that amount before the end of the warranty period your warranty will not be valid.


OCZ’s warranty is also limited. Despite LLT:

Limitation of Warranty:

• Connection to a faulty power source
• Alteration, Modification, Disassembly or unauthorized repair
• Improper use of product
• Normal wear and tear
• User inflicted intentional or accidental damage
• Any other cause not resulting from defects in materials or workmanship