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    ZIF IDE ATA-100 to SATA ZIF HDD

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by cartes, Apr 23, 2012.

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    cartes Newbie

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    Hi all,

    I own a Sony Vaio VGN-TXN25N/B which has served my very well for over 3 years before dying on me last year. It was one hell of a laptop to use on the road, and I didn't need to upgrade to anything more for my use case.

    However, the HDD died (almost) on me early last year, and I've been trying to get a replacement since. The HDD inside is a Toshiba 80GB MK8009GAH, and when I bought a replacement, it simply did not work when I put it in, so I returned that unit, and did not try harder, as I had found an alternative.

    As I said, it "almost" died, that is, it worked but very slowly (probably some damaged sectors inside). I managed to install Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and that does keep me going, but still, after 1hr of usage, it gets pretty hot around the area where the HDD, and the HDD slows down considerably sometimes feeling almost like it's frozen. The heat is probably because the cooling fan is not as strong as it used to be.

    So, I was thinking of getting a SSD ZIF HDD like the SuperTalent ZT2 like:
    Amazon.com: Super Talent 1.8-Inch 64 GB DuraDrive ZT2 ZIF Solid State Drive (MLC) FZM64GW18P: Electronics

    Does anyone have experience or an idea if this will work? I could get the new Vaio Z, but if I could get the TXN25N working, I don't really need the upgrade. Would really help if someone can comment on this.
     
    cartes, Apr 23, 2012
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    Qwaarjet Notebook Deity

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    I put a zif ssd in the wife's backup TXN, works great. Huge performance boost.
     
    Qwaarjet, Apr 23, 2012
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    cartes Newbie

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    Excellent to hear that! What model / brand of SSD ZIF did you put in? Thanks!
     
    cartes, Apr 25, 2012
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    Yes, it will work. Can also peruse http://forum.notebookreview.com/sol...orage/531052-1-8-zif-pata-ssds-available.html for other choices. Runcore ProIV being the fastest ZIF SSD available and has TRIM support.
     
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    cartes Newbie

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    Thanks Nando for the prompt reply!

    I was looking at the review for the Runcore Pro IV on Amazon. These devices seem to be dying out quite fast. The SuperTalent on the other hand, seems to have much better reviews.

    I was also hoping to run Ubuntu without a swap partition, to minimize HDD writes. Do you think that will be a good idea?
     
    cartes, Apr 25, 2012
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