Quote Originally Posted by canthearu View Post
Well, the vertex 4 has working smart information. Looks like my drive got a 600 GiB wear in test as well before being packaged (my drive was sealed and the sticker was intact for the anti-static back, so definitely new.
Really? The Plextors supposedly go through "20 hours of burn in testing" which probably means they just write a couple hundred GiB. That's a good thing, but I wonder how they swing that at the factory. Adding 20 hours to the build process can't be cheap.