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    Upgrading a Vaio VPCSB with additional SSD drive

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by staphanes, Feb 26, 2014.

  1. staphanes

    staphanes Newbie

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    Hi, before I do something that I will regret, I'd love someone's feedback on this: I have a Vaio VPCSB laptop with a Toshiba SSD 128GB that has become too small. I've ordered a notebook hard drive caddy from newmodeus.com to replace the internal CD drive but haven't yet ordered an SSD drive for it. As the laptop is a few years old by now I need to be sure that any new drive that I buy will work. Modern SSD drives all seem to be ATA/600, so will such a drive work when installed in the CD bay? I'm interested in the relatively new Toshiba Q Series Pro 256GB. If you need any specific technical details please let me know. Many thanks for any hints and tips on this.
     
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    If it's SATA and you have a SATA optical bay adapter, it will work fine. SATA/600 is just SATA III meaning the performance cap is much higher (600MB/sec or 6Gbps). Your laptop may only support SATA II which means it will limit performance to 300 MB/sec or 3Gbps.
     
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