Re: [Hampshire] SSD Laptop HDD as drop-in replacement?

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Author: Paul Freeman
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] SSD Laptop HDD as drop-in replacement?
On 2013-02-11 18:41, Daniel Llewellyn wrote:
> On 11 February 2013 01:25, <jlk@???> wrote:
>
>> The last article I read regarding life of SSD indicated that an SSD
>> was more likely to outlive rotating media by a significant factor.
>>  Sorry I can't lay my hands to the link.  More later if I re-discover
>> it.
>>
>> MY 4 year old 901, all SSD, is still going strong though the
>> keyboard and mouse is getting a bit iffy.
>
> My anecdotal evidence of two SSDs is 50/50 - that one (64GB) has
> lasted 8 months and is still alive. The other (128GB) lasted 2 months
> and "died a horrid lethal death of the fatal kind that one doesn't
> recover from" - i.e. it spews file-system and ATA errors constantly
> into the syslog/dmesg. I would have claimed on the warranty but I'd
> thrown the receipt away. I guess it's a case of YMMV.


out of in interest what model/makes were they ?

Paul


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