johny12
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it sucks the intel did that. I under stand why it would do it, but as a consumer I would want the ability to keep going (ie: a pause in the boot once reached it's limit on every power up). But going dead without warning is not acceptable to me for a drive sold to the general market. If being sold as a server grade device, fair enough.
Re sandforce, that is just dirty. Care more about making it to the warranty expiry more than given the consumer what they paid for / expect. I have not been a fan of sandforce controllers (most of my usage patterns are not friendly to compression), but that warranty idea just makes me think even less of them. Might was well add them to the group of companies that put page counters in the ink cartridges of printers to "kill" them after a set number of pages are printed, even if there is still ink left, or even by selling printers with "starter" cartridges which make the whole new printer cheaper than a single replacement cartridge.
/end rant
That warranty period comment got me worried, but after reading around on some other sandforce controller SSDs it seems that setting is not universal and most of the SSDs with that controller don't do that.