SSD Write Endurance 25nm Vs 34nm

[Christopher]

It will be a great shame once the samsung kicks the bucket ... it is such an awesome performing drive.

Pitty it is so damn expensive around here ($440AU for a 256g drive)

I upgraded another 830 I have from 01FW to 03FW and got a significant performance bump, mainly with writes.

I don't know what the exchange rate is, but it's about 25% cheaper here than it was at launch last fall. The pricing is also very volatile at the moment - The 128GB has been $139 to $200 US in the past few days, and the 512GB has been as low as $640 and as much as $800 US.

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OCZ Octane 128 Day 11

161313.13 GiB
159.54 MB/s Average


Samsung 830 256 Day 18

280963.33 GiB
279.24 MB/s Average
385 Hours

1679 Wear Leveling Count
MWI 54

0/0 Erase/Program Fail

OCZ Vertex Turbo 64 Day 37

263022.50 GiB
84.32 MB/s Avg
887 hours

4680 Avg PE count
7 MWI

0/0/0 Read/Program/Erase Fail

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