Re: [GTALUG] War Story: Asus UX305ca SSD failures

2019-08-01 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
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Re: [GTALUG] War Story: Asus UX305ca SSD failures

2019-08-01 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
| From: Howard Gibson via talk |When I bought a hard drive at Best Buy, I asked about SSDs. Seeking advice from Best Buy isn't a great idea. Q: What's the difference between a used car salesperson and a computer salesperson? A: The used car salesperson knows that

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: Asus UX305ca SSD failures

2019-08-01 Thread William Park via talk
On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 11:15:43AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > We bought two Asus ux305ca notebooks about three years ago. The Microsoft > Store had a remarkably good deal on them. I'm not the only GTALUGger to > buy this notebook. Lesson here: Don't buy Asus laptop, if you

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: Asus UX305ca SSD failures

2019-08-01 Thread Howard Gibson via talk
On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 11:15:43 -0400 (EDT) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: > > Two years ago one of the m.2 SATA SSDs suddenly stopped working. If I > remember correctly, it didn't even show up as a disk. > > Last week the same thing happened on the second notebook. > > The only warning

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: Asus UX305ca SSD failures

2019-08-01 Thread Tim Tisdall via talk
On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 at 11:15, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > Two years ago one of the m.2 SATA SSDs suddenly stopped working. If I > remember correctly, it didn't even show up as a disk. > > Last week the same thing happened on the second notebook. Yikes! I guess I better see if I have

[GTALUG] War Story: Asus UX305ca SSD failures

2019-08-01 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
We bought two Asus ux305ca notebooks about three years ago. The Microsoft Store had a remarkably good deal on them. I'm not the only GTALUGger to buy this notebook. Two years ago one of the m.2 SATA SSDs suddenly stopped working. If I remember correctly, it didn't even show up as a disk.