moonlit Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 how do you know if a SSD is going bad? with a standard HDD you can sometimes tell it's going to die, Click of death, slow read times. Are there any clues that a SSD is about to die? The available storage capacity will slowly start shrinking as blocks are marked unusable. The whole thing won't just die at once, but as a file is written and a block can't be used it flags it as bad and grabs a spare. Once all the spares are used up it'll start relocating to other bits of the drive and eventually, when enough bits die, you'll be left with a drive smaller than a floppy disk. Still, that doesn't mean it's useless... [me=moonlit]waves an MSDOS 5.0 floppy in the air[/me] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Kitchen Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 how do you know if a SSD is going bad? with a standard HDD you can sometimes tell it's going to die, Click of death, slow read times. Are there any clues that a SSD is about to die? The available storage capacity will slowly start shrinking as blocks are marked unusable. The whole thing won't just die at once, but as a file is written and a block can't be used it flags it as bad and grabs a spare. Once all the spares are used up it'll start relocating to other bits of the drive and eventually, when enough bits die, you'll be left with a drive smaller than a floppy disk. Still, that doesn't mean it's useless... [me=moonlit]waves an MSDOS 5.0 floppy in the air[/me] What he said Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revolations2525 Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Well, this sounds like the right place to post this link I found from another forum about eh eeePC. http://beta.ivancover.com/wiki/index.php/E...ternal_Upgrades Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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