Recent content by ciab_ch

Regarding the firmware, yes, someone on the Intel board told me much the same thing. The SSDs are Intel but were shipped from Lenovo, so they have a Lenovo firmware. I can probably return the drives but I'm not happy with the idea of returning 40 drives. (I'm an IT guy; when there's a...

OK, I left it overnight attempting to format a ~200 GB partition. 14 hours and counting, still just sitting there. Is this considered expected behavior?

OK, that's interesting! I understand the concept of "garbage collection" so that makes a bit of sense. (What doesn't make sense, at least not intuitively, is why it would work for a while but then stop working.) To clarify, by "wipe" I do not mean doing a long format; I just issue a command...

Hello! I manage a fleet of laptops and tablets for our company. As part of their upkeep, we routinely wipe the HDD/SDD and repartition it to install new operating systems via a scripted process. This is done in Windows PE using PowerShell scripts; we don't use Ghost or other cloning products...