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    What is the HDD size for the Z? 1.8 or 2.5?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by pampas, Dec 2, 2008.

  1. pampas

    pampas Notebook Consultant

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    Sorry but the search only confused me more! The "Z" is too short and tons of irrelevant threads show up. What confused me even more is that Sony customer service told me it's 2.5 but I see people here buying 1.8 SSD for their Z. I know I should trust Sony's people, but the guy didn't know what FreshStart is (as seen on their own website, at Z configurator) so I have some issues with trusting their knowledge.

    Anyone who opened and installed another HDD: what is the size of the original HDD in inches, not GB? I would like to upgrade to a SSD and I am not sure what size to get. Also, is it a lot of work to replace the HDD in the Z? If you know of any links, maybe a step-by-step guide, please help me out. I change it on my SZ and it was much longer than just opening the memory slot :)
     
  2. TemjinZero

    TemjinZero Notebook Evangelist

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    ...there's no way you looked that hard.

    Sony > Sony Forum Sticky List of Popular & Useful Threads Page 3, First post:

    Link to: Vaio Z series F.A.Q., Links and Useful Topics

    Which links you to:
    Exchanging the hard drive guide
    http://forum.notebookreview.com/show...272690&page=90

    :|

    It's a 2.5" HDD IIRC.
     
  3. pampas

    pampas Notebook Consultant

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    Well, you are right, it seems I didn't look around properly.

    Thanks a lot for the info.