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Ars Technica:
--- Quote from: Al on October 01, 2015, 10:49:03 am ---So I finally got it to an independent shop that works with my school. It costs $250 so far to replace it with a SSD. And it'll cost more if they need to go further to retrieve my data. Is this reasonable?
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What size SSD?
Al:
Yeah they didn't even say. I'm guessing 240 GB...which would be 10 less than what I had on my HDD. I'd be shooting for 500 GB but that sounds like it'd be more than $250?
Ars Technica:
--- Quote from: Al on October 01, 2015, 06:48:17 pm ---Yeah they didn't even say. I'm guessing 240 GB...which would be 10 less than what I had on my HDD. I'd be shooting for 500 GB but that sounds like it'd be more than $250?
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I wouldn't pay it, but then again I'm technical and can do it myself, but SSDs are generally going for less than a dollar a gig in terms of price, so it depends what they're charging you for labor. When I did tech work in retail we would generally charge $60 to swap out a hard drive with a new one, plus the cost of the drive. There'd be a bit more if they wanted data transferred, but if not then it's fairly cheap.
Al:
Well...like Keith said, it's only gone downhill. My computer's in the shop for the 3rd time--it was never fixed even though they said it was. It just keeps clicking off and they now want to resolder the motherboard ("reflow" as they call it) and they said it's a 70% chance.
I told them I've lost all hope basically and want them to just transfer/save all my data by any means.
Yeah I miss IRC/TS too. Haven't been able to do anything cause of college, but I miss those nights coming home and finding people on. Cue sad violin music.