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Upgrade To Ssd On Sony Vaio Sr?

Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by howard911s, Feb 10, 2009.

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Hi all, came across this newegg shell shocker. I have a SONY VAIO SR 290 with 320GB hard drive from factory. Any opinion on if it's worth to upgrade to this, like would I see any real world improvement? I don't store a lot of files on my hard drive, just OS and other applications.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227361

Also What is this write delay or issue they are talking about.......apparently someone on amazon has this problem too, would this problem make it slower or still faster write speed than my 5400RPM HD? Thanks..

http://www.amazon.com/OCZ-OCZSSD2-2C120G-120GB-2-5-Inch-Core/dp/B001EHQGT2

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the write delay is due to the controller not able to handle all the small little writes that Windows is notorious for. You need to do partition alignment if running XP (Vista will create the partition properly but XP won't), and some other tweaks to disable the background writes.

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Gotcha, thanks,,,so would this be a worthy upgrade? or wait longer and keep using my 320gb HD....

howard911s, Feb 10, 2009

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