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    Sony vaio z11 storage question

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by virily, Apr 11, 2010.

  1. virily

    virily Newbie

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    Hey everybody

    I am currently looking for a new laptop and the new sony vaio z series appears to be almost exactly what i am looking for. However i personaly didn't like the storage system sony used for this laptop.

    It's not about the fact that i don't want solid state drives but rather how sony implemented them. First of all i have absolutely no use for solid state drives in raid 0.
    The real value SSDs offer over HDDs are the extremely low acces times, 0 sound production, higher physical tolerances (falling damage etc) and lower power consumption. I personaly don't get any advantages from a raid 0 array.
    Also, as everybody knows SSDs in raid still do not support garbage collection.

    However i found a model that has a conventional HDD instead of a SSD listed as VPCZ11V5E .
    I am aware that some older vaio Z laptops use HDDs instead of SSDs but this model seems to have all the specs of the latest vaio Z model except for the SSDs.

    My question is wether or not i could remove the HDD in this model and replace it with a standard solid state drive (an intel g2 drive for example). And would this enable the TRIM command without any issues?

    I tried looking for more info but it appears that there is very little on this model (VPCZ11V5E). I only see it listed on several european sites.
    I myself found it on the dutch Sonystyle site here: https://www.sonystyle.nl/SonyStyle/VAIO-notebooks/Z-Serie-13-1

    (click on "configureren" on the left model, sorry about not being able to provide a direct link or an english one)

    I would greatly appreciate it if anybody could shed some light on all this.
     
    virily, Apr 11, 2010
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  2. pragun

    pragun Notebook Evangelist

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    from what i know you should be able to stick in your own SSD in there. good luck!
     
    pragun, Apr 11, 2010
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  3. blue13x

    blue13x Notebook Deity

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    How about ridiculous fast speed? I doubt you can't find a use for that.

    Because of the raid 0, you get extremely fast performance. 3x to 2x as fast as the fastest single ssd: in the 650mb/s range for the quad setup.

    The main issue here is performance degradation. Despite the lack of trim, there seems to be some sort of "clean up" behind the scenes that seems to keep performance in check.

    The SSD options on the Z are faster than the Intel G2

    I say go SSD and emjoy the super fast speed and skip the hassle of having to get the HDD and putting other stuff in. Make things easy :)
     
    blue13x, Apr 11, 2010
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