Upgrading the SSD on an Eee PC

Not happy with the 2GB, 4GB, 8GB, 12GB, or 20GB of solid state memory that came with your Eee PC? It turns out that you can upgrade it — if you have a really steady hand, a lot of patience, and a soldering iron. Hoschi at Eee PC.de managed to upgrade his 4GB unit to 16GB.

And while Hoschi’s posted a bunch of pictures of the process, he has some advice: don’t try this at home. The SSD chips are expensive, and he’s pretty experienced with this kind of work. Or at least that’s what I think he’s saying, since my German isn’t so good, and neither is Google Translate’s. 

Update: As Tom points out in the comments, Hoschi’s colleage actually performed the upgrade, and he says the necessary software is hard to come by. He got it through his job.

[via jkkmobile]


Posted on Saturday, May 17th, 2008, 4:45 pm by Brad Linder
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  • tom
    actually one of his colleagues did the actual work
    and he says it is impossible to get the necessary software (unless you have it for your work stuff as he does)
  • Uschi
    The link doesn't work:

    use this one: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A...
  • That's odd. It works for me. What do you see when you click it?
  • DougC3
    When I click the link in the first paragraph, I get: "Google Error Bad Request
    Your client has issued a malformed or illegal request."

    The jkkmobile link works.
  • Strange. It worked for me yesterday, but today it didn't. I changed the link and hopefully it should work now.
  • DougC3
    Soldiering in a new SSD seems to amazingly involved. What sort of problems would be anticipated if you just wanted to unplug a 16 Gb SSD from its mini-PCIe slot and plug in, say, a 32 Gb after the prices come down?
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