m.2 SSDs compatible with Asus UX430u?

As the title says.

Son's laptop stopped recognizing the SSD, 95% of the time it boots into UEFI, showing no boot devices. I did manage to trick it into booting after unplugging and replugging the SSD, but it may have been a coincidence. It did bluescreen the next day and the situation recurred.

Is there a list of SSDs compatible with that model?

Thank you!

 

Which SSD is installed now? Have you made sure to keep it's firmware (and the notebook's BIOS) up-t0-date?

Any other information you provide won't be for naught.

 

https://www.amazon.com/hynix-SC308-128GB-Solid-HFS128G39TND-N210A/dp/B07BGGDT9T

Yes.

 

128GB SSD's are scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of not only performance but reliability also. There's a reason they're so inexpensive.

Can you try a different SSD in your notebook? Right now, I don't see it being a compatibility issue - this looks like the drive is flakey to me.

Btw, how long has it worked in this system... and, was it a new drive?

 

That was the original SSD that came with the laptop.

I don't have any extra SSDs and would rather avoid the hassle of buying one, finding out it is incompatible and returning it. Thus the reason for my question.

I never claimed that the failing drive was incompatible, I was asking about compatible replacements.

It was the original drive. We got the laptop used so I am not sure of it's exact age. I'd say it worked at least a couple of years before starting to glitch.

 

Given the info, buy any name brand SSD you want. If you want to keep using this notebook.

I would still recommend a minimum of at least a 512GB model here (last summer I would say 1TB and today 2TB models only) but this isn't a normal M.2 PCIe drive though. It is a SATA M.2 drive. You'll have to try (or search for confirmation either way) if an M.2 PCIe drive will fit/work here.

Find a store with a return policy (and no restocking fees) and buy both a PCIe and an M.2 SATA SSD. Try the PCIe M.2 variant first, and if it works; return the SATA version.

I would recommend the Samsung M.2 SATA SSD's and for a notebook; an XPG SX8200 Pro PCI-E x4 NVMe M.2 SSD of at least 1TB capacity.

You're not just buying performance and capacity with the larger SSD's; you're buying an exponential increase in reliability too (especially if you OP the drive too by 33% as I recommend for maximum performance and longevity too).