VPCZ13 - changing HD in the caddy with an SSD

I own a VPCZ13 with only a HD build in the caddy, no SSD. But now very fast 2.5' SSDs are available and I think to upgrade the build in 500 Gb Toshiba to a Samsun Pro SSD. Surely one problem would be to disassemble the Z13, but there may be another problem: within system I can see, that the Toshiba HD is connected via a Serial ATA 150 only, not very fast, so this may be a strong bottle neck for such an SSD, which can reach about 500 Mbit/s write and read. Any idea or help ?

Thankyou for your help, Horst

 

I don't think it would be any issue as the SSD's low latency is what will help speed up the computer. Random read and write speeds won't be bottlenecked, not to mention that I think the SATA 150 bottleneck probably lies with the Toshiba HD controller, not with the motherboard chipset.

 

May be of interest: now I've done it. Speed very nuch better, the Samsun 840 Pro reaches about 240 Mb/s, which is far more then any normal HD can achieve. Biggest problem was to find a way to copy the system disk to the SSD, because directly, for ex. booted from an USB stick with Linux neither Acronis nor other program would make a disk cloning. At least I took the HD out of the Sony VPCZ and connected it as an external HD to another computer as well as the new SSD (both in separate HD cases) at USB ports. There both were correctly recognized and I could use Acronis True Image home to clone the HD of the VPCZ to the SSD. EASUS was not able to clone from a bigger HD to the smaller SSD. Nevertheless now I'm happy being ready.

Horst