You could be right, but my gut tells me neither wear leveling count could be accurate. And I still can't account for the crazy performance drop. The drive didn't go from ~100 PE cycles to over 5000 overnight, it happened instantly. So you could be right, I just have no way of knowing.
The PE cycles havent increased all day either since hitting 1/1/5444... the threshold is 0, but maybe it's at the end of the line.
Right now it's on track to write 200MB an hour... that's not good.
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