Ok, so who has replaced their hard drive on a Sony TZ?

Running out of space on my 120gb hdd, so just hoping that someone out there can clarify what the options are out there. I've done all the searches, but haven't really seen any recent info on this topic...

I know of the new Toshiba 160gb and 240gb drives, but am not sure if they will fit. I know the new drive I get has to have the ribbon ZIF connector, but would like to know what the max drive height in the Sony TZ bay is as well (I believe the standard heights are 5 and 8mm), to be sure that for example the 240 (thicker) would fit.

If anyone has gone through the entire process, would appreciate your help!

Thanks in advance.

 

Did a bit more digging.

The oem 120gb hdd the TZ comes with is the Toshiba MK1214GAH, which is a PATA drive in an 8mm high housing:

http://www.toshibastorage.com/main....dDiskDrives/MK1214GAH/MK1214GAHSpecifications


That means that theoretically the new 240gb drive (MK2431GAH) should fit, as it is also 8mm high; in addition to more space, also runs more efficiently at 0.0013W/GB versus 0.0025W/GB:

http://www.toshibastorage.com/main....HardDiskDrives/MKxx31GAxSeries/MKxx31GAxSpecs

Anybody put in this drive yet, or any other options out there?

 

A 240GB 1.8" PATA drive. Wow that's very impressive. I did not know it existed. It shouldn't have any problem running it. I'm expecting it will be very expensive though.

Have a looks at Samsung products. They make a 160GB drive I believe.

Also I would recommend you to look into the 160GB 5400rpm drive by Toshiba. They offer a real nice speed boost over 4200rpm drives.
Here's the info: http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/06-11-2008/0004830170&EDATE=

Edit: oops seems like the 5400rpm drives are all SATA.

 

I upgraded a P7230 Fujitsu laptop from a 60gb 4,200rpm HD to a 120GB Samsung 5,400RPM HD part number HS122JC. I did it for storage reasons and because i thought it would be a nice little boost in performance.

I have to say that performance wise i saw no difference at all compared to the 4,200rpm HD.
Vista index means nothing really but the index rating went from something like 3.9 to 4.2. These 1.8 5400rpm HD i believe will not be as fast the 2.5 5400rpm HD's because of the smaller size.

If you want storage go for it but if you are looking for a noticeable performance boost you might be disappointed.

I haven't seen the benchmarks though for these new Toshiba drives and maybe they might perform much better than the Samsung drives.

Edited to add:
The new 1.8" 5,400 rpm drives i believe are SATA drives. Performance for these new SATA drives will be better than the older drives.

 

Right as you say, WEI does not say much. It's based on transfer rates and not on acces times. The reason 5400rpm drives are more interesting is because of their faster acces times.

I'm not sure about the differences but I expect something like this:
Booting Vista with 4200rpm drive: 60 seconds
With 5400rpm: 50 seconds.

But without a stopwatch it will be hard to notice.

 

MAybe you want to consider the runcore ssd drives at conics.net;
they are comaptible with the tz and affordable.

cheers.

 

Thanks guys for your responses so far. Not really looking for a performance increase, just a storage space increase. I therefore would only consider drives >120, maybe the 160 but preferably a 240 or 256. But yes, it does look like for the moment any of these options would be cost prohibitive, save the 160 drive (would this really work, btw? listed as a CEATA drive).

Has anyone here actually done the swap? TZ owners?

 

bump ttp up

 

nobody has yet used the Toshiba MK2431GAH in their TZ? surprised...