On 15 October 2013 16:14, Alex Dicks <alex@???> wrote:
> Both the 4GB and 16GB SSDs failed on my old Eee 900, but in both cases I
> could still read most of the files on them. I had backups anyway, but
> no recent work was lost. The first I knew of the problems both times
> was SMART errors caught by Disk Utility in Ubuntu. (Once one had failed
> I trusted the other much less!)
>
The SSDs in the Eee 701/900 were quite early generation devices, and
had pretty terrible performance and reliability.
I had one die too, the 4GB one in a 900 died, so I re-installed the OS
only on the 16GB SSD, avoiding the busted one.
Tis one of the reasons I don't like Ultrabooks™ (or thin laptops as we
should call them now Intel has given up on the ultrabook brand), the
fact that a lot of the components are soldered on.
The 240GB disk in my X220 is getting quite full and I suspect at some
point I'll buy a 500+GB SSD and migrate over. Can't do that with most
ultrabooks, pretty though they are.
Cheers,
Al.
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