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

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Author: Daniel Llewellyn
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To: paul, Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] SSD Laptop HDD as drop-in replacement?
they were both OCZ Petrol, 64GB (working), and 128GB (dead)


On 11 February 2013 18:48, Paul Freeman <paul@???> wrote:

> 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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