Quote Originally Posted by ice_chill View Post
Great work. I find this thread fascinating. Also I thought Intel 520 would go on forever, but it looks like the Sandforce controller is a let down, as it died without even reporting relocated sector counts first.
Don't forget though, the 520 is a desktop drive based on MLC. It won't receive the absolute best NAND, as it has already been turned into eMLC for their enterprise products. It's tested life, at roughly twice the specifications that Intel put on the nand (10k cycle real life, 5k cycle rated life) was still quite good.