Killing another SSD, what am i doing wrong?

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OCZ Agility died last week (dropped from 95% to 3% life in under 6 months, then died totally)

Kingston drive arrived last saturday, installed windows and ssdlife showed 100% and a death eta of 2020, result.

On Monday it was down to 99% life and 1 year 1 month life. Tuesday was still 99% life but eta was up to 1 year 3 months.
Wednesday was 99% and 1 year 4 months.
Thursday was 99% and 1 year 6 months.

From this i was assuming that ssd life was "learning" the behavior of the drive and was working out an "accurate" death date for the drive.

This evening is showing as 98% life and 10 months life. :confused:

Mobo is Asus P5B-Deluxe, latest bios, latest version of Win7, fully up to date. SSD is plugged into the sata socket by the topmost pci-e (else windows throws a fit when i turn on my raid controller on the other 6 sockets)

Where am i going wrong?
 
Its a guesstimate. Unless it is dead, don't worry. A fresh install is not agood way of finding out since it is still reordering files, installing updating etc. There are far far more writes in the first couple of weeks so this will skew the results.
 
Don't run too many benchmark tests for your ssd either as it can degrade performance,as for the agility it uses asynchronous nand which isn't good if drives half full,performance drops off significantly
 
Anything i download goes to one of my other drives, not done any video editing, etc at all yet.

Odd thing is when i hit the refresh button on ssdlife, i hear the whine of one of my mechanical drives waking up. Cursor goes to the "busy" circle and it takes about 20 seconds to update.

The written/read box hasn't show up yet & the SMART values are all to pot too. Is my mobo just too confused to understand an ssd?

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