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Different amount of written data per each P/E cycle can be due to write amplification which can significantly differ between various SSD brands / models. As long as TRIM is enabled and working correctly your drive should see free space on it in the same way as if it was unallocated by the file...

Judging by the attachment you added it's at 97% now. I wouldn't worry too much about these numbers anyway. At least on previous firmware version (M3CR022) the drive would reset this value to 0% after reaching 255%. In torture test it sustained more than 6000 P/E cycles. And yours is only at...

What is your Wear leveling (#173) decimate value? How much free space was on the drive while it was intensively written to?

A few weeks ago I bought a 1TB MX500 for my personal system [i7-3770/32GB RAM/H77/GTX1050Ti/Win 7 x64 SP1] to replace a combo of a smaller SSD and an HDD. My MX500 also has this weird behavior when occasionally the drive reports attribute #197 (Current Pending Sector Count) to go from 0 to 1...