Windows Defrag v KingDian SSD... FAIL
I'm sure you all already know this one, and many vendor specific implementations of SSD drivers/applications prevent this... Not me though. Yes, I have a dirty cheap (£27) SSD from KingDian in my Laptop... Wait, wait wait, stop abusing me! This is just a boot disk to hold a local OS and some scratch space, all my storage is provided to this machine over NFS. The trouble? Well, in the late summer the wife and I had a few days away in deepest darkest Wales... Now this was a disconnected break, however, I couldn't resist taking the laptop loaded down with a few DVD based games and a steam download or two, plus I got to take some system code with me and a slew of PDF's I could read... I got a lot of work done, even without Linux (yes I had to flatten the machine back to Windows 7). And I pretty much put the machine away until just before Christmas, I then needed it again, so flipped it out the cabinet and fired it up, only to immediately find the battery was dead... It had be...