SSD Write Endurance 25nm Vs 34nm

[Christopher]

Christopher:

Nice speed you are getting from the samsung.

My 240gig Sandisk extreme (got it yesterday) is only 160meg per sec in ASU endurance (should spend a little bit of time figuring out why speed is so low, could be due to sata 2 and microsoft drivers)

And I do think you are crazy for throwing a 256gig drive on the fire ... but I guess it was bound to happen sooner or later!

I'm probably going to get thrown under the jail for doing this to a 256GB drive. It's not quite 19 hours in and I already have 21 000GiB written. Just... awesome.

I almost bought a Extreme 120 (They were seriously cheap here for a day... ) but I decided on the Plextor M3P 128. I just figured the incompressible writes were not going to be stellar on the SDEx, no matter what.

My Mushkin Chronos Deluxe 120GB has a max seq. random data write of 240MB/s... but it can only manage 180MB/s with 47% data in ASU. SF writes are funny under the best of circumstances... a sawtooth-like wave keeping avg. speed low. It's the nature of the beast, but not a big deal under normal use. In the endurance test, sometimes you just need a bigger hammer.