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

2013-02-11 Thread Daniel Llewellyn
On 11 February 2013 01:25, j...@osml.eu 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

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

2013-02-11 Thread Paul Freeman
On 2013-02-11 18:41, Daniel Llewellyn wrote: On 11 February 2013 01:25, j...@osml.eu 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: [Hampshire] SSD Laptop HDD as drop-in replacement?

2013-02-11 Thread Daniel Llewellyn
they were both OCZ Petrol, 64GB (working), and 128GB (dead) On 11 February 2013 18:48, Paul Freeman p...@noc4.net wrote: On 2013-02-11 18:41, Daniel Llewellyn wrote: On 11 February 2013 01:25, j...@osml.eu wrote: The last article I read regarding life of SSD indicated that an SSD was

[Hampshire] [Admin] Upcoming meetings

2013-02-11 Thread Tim Brocklehurst
Hi guys, Just thought I'd give you an update on the next two meetings. Next month we are at the University again (Bldg 59). We start at 1pm (Saturday 2nd March). Please post about any talks you want etc. In April, we are privilidged to be hosted at IBM Hursley. For those who haven't been

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

2013-02-11 Thread Alan Pope
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

Re: [Hampshire] [Admin] Upcoming meetings

2013-02-11 Thread Anton Piatek
I'm always up for a debate :-) Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 11 Feb 2013 18:58, Tim Brocklehurst t...@engineering.selfip.org wrote: Hi guys,

Re: [Hampshire] [Admin] Upcoming meetings

2013-02-11 Thread Anton Piatek
On 11 Feb 2013 19:32, an...@piatek.co.uk wrote: I'm always up for a debate :-) That said, I am also happy to be the host for the debate if nobody else wants to. We should have several microphones in the auditorium if that would suit the event, otherwise there are more informal rooms available.

Re: [Hampshire] [Admin] Upcoming meetings

2013-02-11 Thread Tim Brocklehurst
On Monday 11 Feb 2013 20:23:35 Anton Piatek wrote: On 11 Feb 2013 19:32, an...@piatek.co.uk wrote: I'm always up for a debate :-) That said, I am also happy to be the host for the debate if nobody else wants to. We should have several microphones in the auditorium if that would suit the

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

2013-02-11 Thread Paul Freeman
On 2013-02-11 18:51, Daniel Llewellyn wrote: they were both OCZ Petrol, 64GB (working), and 128GB (dead) ahh yeh OCZ have had more then their fair share of SSD issues :) particularly ATA errors cropping up and firmware issues etc, that said most of the SSD manuacturers had to release

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

2013-02-11 Thread Imran Chaudhry
On 11 February 2013 18:51, Daniel Llewellyn diddle...@gmail.com wrote: they were both OCZ Petrol, 64GB (working), and 128GB (dead) Interesting. I have only ever owned one SSD which was a couple of years back: an OCZ Petrol 40G (but used from eBay). It seems to work OK for a few weeks and then