[GTALUG] War Story: Asus UX305ca SSD failures

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Hi Alvin,

On Fri, 2 Aug 2019 09:35:47 -0400
Alvin Starr via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
> 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.
> 
You will not lose your money, but as the odds will be fairly even, you
will not win anything :)

> Remember. You only get what you pay for(on a good day).
> 
Well said!