Day 7

It is been seven days now we're trying to run out of NAND flash cycles and still the drive is reporting 90 percent regarding health status. If things keep on going like this, then we will have to write ten times as much data then what we've done so far. The screenshot above is showing you, we've been writing 45 Terabyte to the OCZ Vector with 256 Gigabyte capacity. If we now keep in mind, that OCZ is specifying endurance for this drive with 20 Gigabyte written per day, translated into total Terabytes written it means 35 Terabyte. In other words we've surpassed that value by 10 Terabyte already and remaining life is still at 90 percent. It is starting to look like, OCZ in this case, was engineering this drive with a rather large factor in mind regarding endurance. So far it appears this drive is going to survive at least ten times the total NAND writes, which OCZ advertises in the specs.

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