Originally Posted By: msaeger
For me I had to send the old one in before they would send the new one. They did send me a new in retail package one back though I figured I would get a "refurb".

I had to send them mine before they would send me a new one also. I got a new SSD in the retail package, but it has firmware 1.07 on it and it has completely resisted all attempts at upgrading it (the upgrade icon on the interface never activates).

One thing I did differently this time was instead of using the SSD as a system disk, I only use it for programs that I care about the extra speed on. Currently, that means that I install a bunch of games that I want to load quickly on it smile As nice as the 15 sec boot and login was, reinstalling everything just isn't worth it to me. Reinstalling a few programs is a lot less of a hassle (especially since the majority are on Steam and I can just let it go overnight).