[GTALUG] War Story: Asus UX305ca SSD failures

[Alvin Starr]

On 8/1/19 7:14 PM, William Park via talk wrote:
> 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 want reliability.

The lesson should be don't buy the least expensive product if you want 
reliability.

I am typing this on a 6+ year old Asus laptop with a couple of 256G SDDs 
and I have not had a problem with it.

Most manufacturers will produce products that are scaled back with the 
least expensive components.

I have a few "cheap" HP,ACER and Dell laptops that have been trashed in 
a couple of years in that category.

I would be willing to bet that Microsoft had Asus make a special 
production run with parts of "less expensive" quality so that they could 
meet that "good deal" price point.

Remember. You only get what you pay for(on a good day).


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