On a 1 year old laptop? I just ran a health check on my hard drives, and it's checking out without issue. I'm not having any kind of read/write issues, or any kind of software crashing.
It appears as though it could be a bug in the kernel: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/539467 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578546 Title: wireless randomly disconnects -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs