On 2024-11-10 15:21, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Snyder, Alexander J said on Fri, 8 Nov 2024 17:44:03 -0700
> 
>> I have a Samsung Galaxy Book ultra thin and the HDD is a chip soldered
>> to the board. How do I know this? My last one failed and I tried to
>> repair it. 🤕
> 
> We've come a long way baby. My 1984 Kaypro 2x had all its RAM soldered
> directly to the motherboard. I don't recall any daughtercards. So any
> repair was a board level repair.
> 
> Of course my Kaypro 2x motherboard was simply a double sided board with
> through components, soldering/unsoldering was relatively easy. Now,
> with today's multilayered wave soldered boards, Samsung solders the
> NVMe to the motherboard.
> 
> We've come a long way baby!
> 
> Many of you know that I'm a huge fan of simplicity, modularity and


Does that include software?  I am a proponent of KISS.



> parts interchangeability. Samsung's action violates the latter two, and
> for troubleshooting purposes forecloses easy parts swapping as a
> diagnostic test, thereby violating simplicity.
> 
> A long time ago my buddy Kevin Korb said that Samsung always manages to
> get something wrong. With my Samsung TV they withheld a 29 cent
> headphone jack and made sure their optical sound output wasn't
> compatible with converters. Soldering the NVMe is certainly another
> example.
> 
> SteveT
> 
> Steve Litt
> 
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