On Monday 14 September 2009 06:13:26 Edd Barrett wrote: > Hi, > > As some of you may know, my beloved x31 thinkpad went pop last week > and needs a new system board :( Not worth the effort in replacing. > > I have located someone willing to sell me an X41 tablet at a very > affordable price, however this is the model with the sucky hitachi > disk. I have seen that you can get SSD adaptors for X41's and slap an > SSD in there, but I am not really sure if it is wise, as SSD disks > seems to be rather expensive. > > My questions: > a) Is there anywhere you can get SSD's for cheaper than 100GBP. I only > really need 60GB or so. > b) Any other comments? > > Thanks
I read that you decided to get an x60 but I'm commenting on this anyway. SSDs are clearly the future. That is, in the future--not now. I've seen too many weird things with them, and there is one species of SSD that is sensitive to strong RF fields in the 30MHz - 70MHz range; they crash or do just plain strange things. Certainly there are SSDs that work just fine, but from the experiences of friends, I'd say they're at least 3 times more flaky than disks are. Intel had a recall on some earlier this summer, too. Disks are cheap, really cheap right now... --STeve Andre'
