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    Z590 SSD Upgrade

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by jeme, Oct 27, 2008.

  1. jeme

    jeme Notebook Evangelist

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    So I purchased a Z590 and love it - I orginally upgraded to a Seagate 320GB 7200 RPM drive and am now considering going to an MLC based Samsung 128 GB SSD.

    The SSD's are about $800, the question I have is has anyone done this upgrade and is it worth the cost of the SSD drive?

    I need to balance loosing capicity against gaining speed?

    Your comments and thoughts are appreciated!
     
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    jeme Notebook Evangelist

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    Anyone have any comments here?
     
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    I'm also interested in this as well as upgrading the dvd drive to the blu-ray one. I hope separate parts of Sony will be soon available and in reasonable prices.
     
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    no noise or vibration at all from the seagate - fan running more - I am not sure of as when I got the machine - I made restore disks and went right to changing the HD out.
     
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    Hey folks, I'm totally serious about this too. But more so, how would I set up a 0 RAID config 2x128, etc..?
     
    agitprop, Oct 27, 2008
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    Vaio Z I have no clue how to convert to RAID. I'm not even sure why Sony doesnt allow Raid + Blu-Ray maybe they use the same sata channels or you need a special ribbon cable etc.

    I have however swapped my stock HDD to a Patriot SSD which now completes the Vaio. I wouldnt buy the Samsung SSD as its now old fashioned unless they release a V2 like OCZ did. If you want blazing fast SSD im thinking Intel 25-M SSD Drives.

    Stock was 7200rpm and it was pretty good. However SSD i just cant live without and 64GB is enough I think as OS and software takes up 20-30 gigs so you have a good 30 gigs to use on your media stuff and worse comes to worse you can shove in a SDHC into the mem card slot and if you run out there you can just attach a 500 gig 2.5 HDD drive via USB or pull out an old 1.8" hdd from an old ipod hahaa

    Storage i dont see as a problem. Speed is the key.. you want fast file indexing and boot up. Storage is just ... backup ur pr0n LOL
     
    pracola, Oct 27, 2008
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