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

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Author: Alan Pope
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] SSD Laptop HDD as drop-in replacement?
On 11/02/13 18:41, Daniel Llewellyn wrote:
> 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.
>


My anecdotal evidence is based on a range of 6 SSDs from Corsair, OCZ,
Intel, and Cruical. None have failed yet. I backup daily though, just in
case :)

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