The SATA socket used on the ASUS Zenbook Prime is smaller than the standard mSATA socket, so good luck on find consumer options if you want to upgrade capacity down the road. Each of these are obviously 32GB, which adds up to the 128GB capacity of the SSD. We removed the A-DATA XM11 128GB SSD and found that their are no MLC NAND Flash chips on the back, which means the four chips on the front are it. May be able to remove SSD - BUT the SSD uses a NONstandardized (mSata) Connector. Running the softwares from a USB drive on the machines in a brick-and-mortar store should also help determine the type of SSD present. Consumers should take advantage of the 14-day return policy if the slower Sandisk U100 is found in their purchases. The ‘Sandforce Driven’ sticker on the box should be ignored and SSD tests like HDTune or CrystalDiskMark should be able to confirm the type of SSD inside.
There is no way to determine the type of SSD in the laptop. Other manufacturers like Apple with its Air are also forced to this course of action due to component shortages. This change in hardware is independent of model variation or place of purchase, but mostly MX11 SSDs are supposed to be used. According to Asus, Sandisk U100 models are used only due to MX11 shortages. The U100 also has increased access times. Both the 128GB and the 256GB options can either be the ADATA MX11 or the Sandisk U100.Ĭomparing AS SSD benchmarks between 128GB SSDs shows that Sandisk's U100 is considerably slower than Adata's MX11, especially in 4k reads and writes. UPDATE: Above was for laptops IN GENERAL: Looks like yours is NOT readily replacableĪccording to user reports, Asus includes two types of SSDs in the UX31A. Go to disk manager and Expand to use full capacity of New larger drive. To replace should only need to connect NEW SSD to USB port, clone the drive.
I'm seeing some laptops that the Primary drive is NOT readly removable.īefore Buying, download the manual and read it. Should be absolutely NO problem providing the HDD (SSD in this case) us easily removable.
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