That’s awful to hear, and I share much the same with my Vertex 2’s.
Hopefully a fix comes out for you!

I’m glad you brought it up, and yes Phison did fix this issue. It’s a brand new controller, utilizing SATA 3 for the first time, and works as advertised.

I guess it’s the price we pay as early adopters! 😀

Thanks for clarifying. I was finding that on my Torqx 2 64gig, that after a secure erase, once I wrote 64 gig to the device, that performance fell to 25meg per second and would not really recover.

It wasn’t so much that pounding the drive resulted in serious degradation … it was simply that it couldn’t maintain decent performance at all once it had to start garbage collecting and erasing cells.

It is good to hear that phison has solved this problem in their newest controller.

I actually have two OCZ Vertex 2 60GB’s using the SandForce 1200 controller, and they too have degraded an insane amount since their FOB state. There is a massive thread about it at the OCZ forums, but suffice it to say SF isn’t immune to it (which you also mentioned).

I ran the BP3 through MANY tests, and even separate controllers on the motherboard, and got consistent results the entire time. I gotta agree with Les on this one, but you make some solid points, and I feel it’s something that you would only really find out after heavy, prolonged use (sleep, hibernate, reboot, shutdown, gaming, high-performance apps, read/write tests, moving a ton of files, and doing this all in a regular and timely manner).

Thanks for the comment!

Well aware of the different levels of performance and our testing for the typical consumer drive has been shaped in the direction that we have found the reader enjoys the most. There seems to be a very fine line between providing a package that keeps the reader interested and then one that becomes a bit too technical for most.

Unfortunately, there are so many different experiences by so many different consumers that we cannot conform our testing to that of each. I am familiar with your experience and have to say that it doesn’t speak to the new Phison controller, nor is it the norm with the former. Thank you for the suggestions.

Unfortunately, FOB performance is not normal for ssds, and phison controllers in the past have shown themselves to be very slow after they have exhausted their FOB state

I’m talking about catastrophic degradation, my torqx-2 went from more then 100meg per sec writes to 25meg per second writes after FOB condition was exhausted. (sequential writes). I couldn’t really recommend a phison controller based drive until I saw this problem fixed.

It isn’t generally a huge concern with marvell and sandforce drives, which generally exhibit a smaller amount of difference between FOB and steady state, but it would be very good to see how this particular drive handles it!