The way I figure it, you'd be able to avg around 160MB/s with a 32GB X25-E, or 13.5TB a day. That works out to 337.5x drive capacity (based on the 40GB of SLC onboard) a day. That means it would only take ~296 days to exhaust MWI. If the drive died exactly at MWI 1, then that would be do-able.

But I don't think it would work like that. If the X25-V can make it to 25,000PE cycles, why can't the X25-E make it to 500,000? Or 750,000? I think that 50nm SLC will pretty much last forever unless you're placing it under absurdly high WA full-span conditions.

Now double the amount of flash, but keep the same avg. speed... almost two years to MWI 1.



The man who decides to endurance test an X25-E would officially be known as the bravest man to walk the Earth.