Good point ... I forgot to mention how the drive performed before formatting/resetting it.
HDTune Pro showed what I would call significant degridation even after running the "trim" feature of the toolbox. The average was around 180mb/sec and had around a 100mg/sec difference between max and...
Thought I would share a couple of thoughts with all of you.
I purchased a 80GB X-25m SSD a few months ago and have been looking to securely erase (i.e. wiping the LBA tables) it's contents since then as a means to test degradation performance. I.e. us it for awhile, document the performance...