Customer Reviews

Super Talent 16GB Mini PCI-E SATA2 Solid State Drive (MLC) for Asus S101 Eee PC FPM16GRSE

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Cheap, fast and plenty of space for most any OS requirements. I was a bit concerned when ordering because it was not listed as being supported on the 900a but it worked without and fuss.

This is a great HD and a perfect replacement for the 4 GB drive that was previously in my Asus EeePC 900a. The drive was replaced in under 4 minutes, and formatted using UNetBootIn and Ubuntu 9.10. (the desktop edition!)

While I've only been using it for about a month, the speed increase (read and write) of the drive was immediately noticeable. There are no more stutters, pauses, nothing -- it's smooth as silk. Bootup time with Ubuntu 9.10 on this drive is 26 seconds, with log-in and functionality at 35 seconds. In a word, awesome.

Works great in my ASUS eeePC 900A netbook. Although it's not the fastest variety among SSDs, it runs with very respectable speed.

I bought this product from another vendor and installed it in my EeePc 901. It worked well for about 3 months then just stopped working one day. Now I'm unable to read even the partition table. The errors in my system log indicate hardware failure. I put the original SSD back in and it works fine.

Super Talent supposedly warranties its SSD's for two years, so I sumbitted a RMA request to [...] per the instructions on their website. 2 weeks later I haven't received any reply at all, not even a canned "we'll get around to it" response. I called the telephone number listed on their website (long-distance not toll free) during normal business hours and tried the options for "RMA" and "Support"--both lead to a recording instructing you to email [...].

I have an Eee PC 901.

This device increased the speed of it a lot.

Advantages:

- Fully compatible, no need to tweak any master/slave configs

- Easy to install, remove 2xscrews, remove the old one, put the one & working

- Speed of Operating System increased a lot, now it is a decent OS (Eeebuntu)

- Flash in fullscreen is fluid.

Disavantages:

- Temperature has increased

- I guess the battery lasts shorter than before, I couldn't notice though.

Somebody said in a review that the difference between than this model and the faster one at 32 GB wouldn't be so much, but you get the +32GB for more or less the same price. I can tell that the speed improvement is high, and I got also these extra 32GB. I am very glad.

I bought this to upgrade the state drive in my ASUS 900 netbook and it works great and was very easy to install. It took less than five minutes! Highly recommend for your ASUS 900 too!

I got a great deal on a stock EEE PC 900 with XP. Unfortunately, this machine came with a turtle-slow solid state drive. I bought the Super Talent as a replacement (along with the an upgrade from 1 GB to 2 GB RAM). It made the machine work as well as my home machine (for internet browsing anyway). It definitely improved performance to a huge degree. The only thing holding my PC back now is the processor.

Unfortunately, the drive I received seemed to have a defect, and since it would have taken 1-2 months to ship a new one, I got a refund instead of an exchange.

Regardless... if you are looking for an upgrade from a stock SSD for you EEE PC, I would recommend this drive.

I put one into an ASUS Eee PC 901, boot Windows off this drive, and wound up with lots more hard drive space and a much speedier system.

I popped this SSD into my Asus EEE PC 901 over 7 months ago (a super-easy process, by the way) and it has worked just fine since. A lot of the speed issues I had with that netbook were drive-access related and this cleared them up. I've filled the drive many times with both big (video) and small (source code) files and no noticeable degradation has occurred.

I bought it from other venders (they are no longer sell this any more). Worked fine for several month. It was big improvement over the original slow Asus 16G SSD. Start from last month, the driver shrinks its capacity from 32G to 4G and windows won't boot anymore.