Calling all sony vaios with SSD owners

Hey guys,

Im considering purchasing a viao with SSD, and I would like to hear your impressions/experiences with it. Any info, tidbits would be welcome.


Also, if anyone knows of the manufacturers of the SSD in the vaio Zs and SRs that'd be nice.

 

Hi There,
I got a Z540 and brought at the same time Intel's X-25M 80GB SSD.
It wokred like a charm.. really every task is faster and the whole system feels more responsive (we are talking vista here).

Unfortantly, my Intel drive died (I am always unlucky with hardware hehe), but Intel delivered good custom support and sent me a new drive as soon as they had got my faulty drive.

SSD is a must in a notebook if you ask me.

The manufacture of SSDs of the ready-made Z's are samsung.

 

I just bought a sr-490 and got the 7200 rpm 320gb hdd, although an ssd is better right now the price to get it preinstalled is insane, I have buddies who have put ssd in their systems and it was very simple my recommendation is to wait a bit like 6 months or so because prices on ssd are dropping, and a self install is easy.

 

Sony uses good quality Samsung SSDs in the Z. I have the 256GB RAID 0 (128GBx2) model, which was a ￥40,000 (roughly $400USD) option here in Japan, and I consider that a fair price for the size and write speed (which is boosted pretty significantly by the RAID setup). The read speed is roughly comparable to that of the Intel, at around 165MB/sec. I couldn't test the write speed, but it performed quite a bit faster in informal tests (duplicating a bunch of large files on the disk) than the Intel X25-M in my desktop machine. Considering the 160GB X25-M still costs more ($450+ for the first generation, last I checked), I'd say the Samsung OEM disks at 256GB are a good deal.

The other reason why I decided not to mess with installing my own disk is because I didn't want to take apart the Z. I love dissecting laptops, but the Z has lots of small parts I didn't want to risk breaking.

 

I have a samsung 64GB SSD with some "new" RBB chipset (or whats its called), suppose to do 220 and 120 speeds. I installed it in my old SZ serie laptop and difference is very noticable. Too bad I did not afford a 128GB version, because it have 220 220 speeds, but 64G is enough for me.

I also notice much less heat and more battery life. This is probably duo to old HDD I had, never HDDs might not have so big difference.

Its a definetly a right thing to do and I advice it to anybody that asks.

I run Windows 7 on it.