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    Z Power Media dock hard disk install

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by rudeboymcc, Sep 2, 2016.

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    rudeboymcc Notebook Guru

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    Just got a BlueRay PMD and so wondering what to do with my old DVD one. Opening it up shows the optical drive is a standard full size laptop SATA one. If I get a caddy this should allow me to install a laptop hard drive in there and have a second full speed SATA hard disk.

    Attached is the image of the connector. This should be faster than any USB external HD right?
     

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    rudeboymcc Notebook Guru

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    Seems like there's not much love for the Power Media dock :)
    I got this working in the end. Stuck a 7200rpm 1tb hard disk in there, and the results are:
    Read speed 130mb
    Write speed 18mb

    So for anyone else interested, this is a straight forward swap! The optical drive bay adapter is a 12.7mm one (not the 9.5mm one that's commonly sold for macs).
     
    rudeboymcc, Sep 6, 2016
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