Note that the 120GB Vertex drive here is in my main development / daily-use machine. According to the SMART data it has now averaged 33 erase cycles across all of the flash.
Which SMART attribute tells you the number of cycles? Some of the ones being reported by mine are pretty weird like 0xCE - Flying Height.
I tried looking for information on SMART attributes in the OCZ forum and all I could find was a handful of threads where a moderator keeps saying that SMART doesn't work and won't ever work for SSDs. The numbers being returned by the SMART commands are nothing you should be looking at. Go away. Thread closed.
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