On 11 February 2013 18:51, Daniel Llewellyn 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 suddenly died. Fro
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 firmwa
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 er
they were both OCZ Petrol, 64GB (working), and 128GB (dead)
On 11 February 2013 18:48, Paul Freeman wrote:
> On 2013-02-11 18:41, Daniel Llewellyn wrote:
>
>> On 11 February 2013 01:25, wrote:
>>
>> The last article I read regarding life of SSD indicated that an SSD was
>>> more likely to out
On 2013-02-11 18:41, Daniel Llewellyn wrote:
On 11 February 2013 01:25, 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
On 11 February 2013 01:25, 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 s
On 2013-02-10 09:14, Chris Dennis wrote:
On 09/02/13 14:00, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
On 8 February 2013 21:50, Imran Chaudhry
wrote:
I'm thinking of buying an SSD for my Dell Inspiron 6400 when Debian
Wheezy becomes stable and to benefit from fast bootup.
The laptop is 2006 vintage and ha
I would not worry about it any more. They will most likely last longer then
the computer you put them in these days. And by the time it does start to
die in many, many years time the disks will be cheaper and larger and you
will probably be looking for a replacement anyway :)
On 10 February 2013
Hi Tony, hijacking my own thread a little but you mentioned Netbooks...
What do you run on it and does it do it well?
I am toying with the idea of a used Netbook as lightweight, space-server
alternative to my Dell Inspiron. Something like an Acer Aspire One series
D260 or D270 (both have well sup
On 2013-02-10 14:14, Chris Dennis wrote:
On 09/02/13 14:00, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
On 8 February 2013 21:50, Imran Chaudhry
wrote:
I'm thinking of buying an SSD for my Dell Inspiron 6400 when Debian
Wheezy becomes stable and to benefit from fast bootup.
The laptop is 2006 vintage and ha
They usually come with a spacer/adapter.
Works fine in my netbook.
Tony Wood
On 10/02/13 14:14, Chris Dennis wrote:
On 09/02/13 14:00, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
On 8 February 2013 21:50, Imran Chaudhry wrote:
I'm thinking of buying an SSD for my Dell Inspiron 6400 when D
On 09/02/13 14:00, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
On 8 February 2013 21:50, Imran Chaudhry wrote:
I'm thinking of buying an SSD for my Dell Inspiron 6400 when Debian
Wheezy becomes stable and to benefit from fast bootup.
The laptop is 2006 vintage and has a "spinning rust" SATA drive. Can I
just
On 2013-02-09 14:00, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
The only thing you really need to care about with HDD to SSD
replacement is the height of the HDD, is it 9.5 or 7mm high.
The 6400 can fit both 7mm and 9.5mm SSD.
I would advise that you purchase a 7mm SSD because then it is more
lilely to fit in
Brill - thanks very much for the info James & others.
I'll check out the Crucial brand of SSDs.
I feel the HDD is the "weak point" in my laptop as it's more than
enough in the other departments (Dual-core CPU, VT-x extensions, 2G
RAM, Intel graphics) for what I do with it.
On 9 February 2013 14:
On 8 February 2013 21:50, Imran Chaudhry wrote:
> I'm thinking of buying an SSD for my Dell Inspiron 6400 when Debian
> Wheezy becomes stable and to benefit from fast bootup.
>
> The laptop is 2006 vintage and has a "spinning rust" SATA drive. Can I
> just use any SSD SATA laptop drive as a drop-i
Upgrade your bios if possible just to make sure.
After you have found out what SATA version you require, measure your
current laptop hard drive. Generally laptop HD's are slimmer than 2.5"
drives found in servers and desktops.
For example, this SSD is 7mm think, they tend to range between 7mm and
On Friday 08 Feb 2013 21:50:55 Imran Chaudhry wrote:
> I'm thinking of buying an SSD for my Dell Inspiron 6400 when Debian
> Wheezy becomes stable and to benefit from fast bootup.
>
> The laptop is 2006 vintage and has a "spinning rust" SATA drive. Can I
> just use any SSD SATA laptop drive as a d
I'm thinking of buying an SSD for my Dell Inspiron 6400 when Debian
Wheezy becomes stable and to benefit from fast bootup.
The laptop is 2006 vintage and has a "spinning rust" SATA drive. Can I
just use any SSD SATA laptop drive as a drop-in replacement or do I
have to be careful about particular
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