TBW is not "interpreted" by HDS. It's a S.M.A.R.T. value. CDI will give you the same number.If you use the latest Crystal Disk Info instead of hard disk sentinel, do you get the same TBW number or different?
Can you post a screenshot of what Intel SSD Toolbox reports on the drive with 226TBW? Anyone know how the "Estimated Life Remaining" percentage maps to the rated endurance on these drives?My two drives (received today) had 12TBW and the other one 226TBW... Oh well...
I would agree; I'd be happy with the drives you got too. I was only curious because people list SSDs on eBay with "Guaranteed >= 95% Estimated Life Remaining in Intel Toolbox," which certainly doesn't seem to mean "less than 5% of rated endurance used" based on the data shown in this thread.I guess it decreases a lot when you start using up on the spare pieces of MLC in the drive. Anyway I don´t really expect to write 100TB to this drive any time soon, so it should be a keeper. Just sold a Samsung 960GB I got at $195 to finance this - I have more trust in Intel
Just a thought. Could that amount of usage just mean HP tested it and pushed custom firmware to it? My 240gb HP drives also has something like that in hours - packed in retail-like packaging (sealed).I bought one from another seller just before I saw this thread. It's running HP firmware so dunno about total writes but at total power on time of 2 days - 19 hours, it's still a baby. I paid $130 for it tho.