Decided to pimp up my laptop by treating it to a 128gb SSD. Kingston V100 jobbie. £150 pre vat increase.
Yeah, installed fine. It's so tightly fitted in the laptop and he connector is super positive that it's not that. Plus it mirrored the old drive fine, then after installed it went through several power cycles/boots fine. Just nada this morning... I tried it in the external hdd enclosure that comes with the drve (so you can use your old drive as a backup external) and it was dead in that too.. #fail
Can you listen to check if it is spinning up.............. oh wait /unhelpful sarcastic modeWhat does say?TBH, this is really putting me off buying one - I know you are more than capable with this kind of shit... Out of interest, how many years warranty do you get?With other big drive vendors, when you ring up to get it swapped out they will ask you to run some diags against it and give them a fault code. Don't know what the score is with Kinsgton..
TBH, this is really putting me off buying one
Strange they did a defrag above, I thought they didn't need it.
Quote from: Tris on January 19, 2011, 11:27:49 amTBH, this is really putting me off buying oneDon't be, TomTom has hopefully just been unlucky.
I meant a Kingston drive - I have got/used an SSD drive in my Asus EEE netbook for years, it is still running fine...
Quote from: iain on January 19, 2011, 12:31:21 pmStrange they did a defrag above, I thought they didn't need it.Defraging is a feature of the file system and not the hardware (in my understanding).
Quote from: slack---line on January 19, 2011, 12:37:49 pmQuote from: iain on January 19, 2011, 12:31:21 pmStrange they did a defrag above, I thought they didn't need it.Defraging is a feature of the file system and not the hardware (in my understanding).ssds have their own issues around space management and access times but things like trim and wear levelling support help.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_levelingHowever, having said all that whilst I was following your good example and hunting around for links to back my waffle up I came across the following which seems to say that trim and wear levelling are kind off like defragging anyway:http://www.networkcomputing.com/storage-networking-management/ssd-onslaught-spotlights-defrag-debate.phpWho knows