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Re: [LUG] Bah! Disks! Bah!

 

About those soldering skills of yours, bearing in mind that to solder these would require 120 pins sat across about 3" of space it'd be impossible for anyone however we don't solder these chips, we surface mount them. Surface mounting uses roughly the same principle as soldering but on a smaller scale so paste is put on the pins and then an air pencil is used to melt the paste or alternatively an oven can be used, this means that just about anyone with access to an oven and some reflow paste can do the job.
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Quoting Max Siegieda <maxsiegieda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Aha, that's my cue! There are a few methods of cutting the price of larger
SSDs although they are somewhat risky. Remember the
manufacturing efficiency boosting method of making a high end product then
lopping bits off? It's in use with SSDs too, for example there's a certain
Kingston drive that uses exactly the same controlling hardware as the very
nice Intel X-25M 80GB (which tend to cost about £175 iirc) however it has
half the NAND chips meaning slower speeds and lower capacities. It is
possible to buy these chips from places such as Digi-key and
surface-mount-solder them back on giving you the high grade SSD for £125.

Interesting, shame my soldering skills are how can I put it... non existant.  I'm sure anyone good at soldering though with the right kit could possibly manage it.

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