Xbench ssd 4k6/24/2023 ![]() I usually spend much of my time in Word/Excel with Wifi off which pushes this to 5 hours+. Most other apps are 'one bounce'.īattery life: around 4 hours wifi surfing. Photoshop CS5 - 7 secs (looooong time previously)Īperture 3 - 2 bounces (then it start's to open library) Word 2011 - 3 secs (was something like 30 on the HDD) Spotlight is instant, as is data handling in apps such as Yep <- massive improvement handling an index of thousands of Word docs/PDFs. Technical benchmarks are below, but in real-world everyday use it's like load times for apps, response in the Finder, saving and quitting apps are all a thing of the past. Going from a HDD to the K3E is taking a massive leap. I finally went for a 120GB Renice K3E (native PATA) from Asiatechtrade. There are different interfaces for the 1.8 inch drive, I have checked for a long time for what is the suitable SSD for my VGN-TZ21VN, and got the confimation that we should use 1.8 inch 40pin PATA ZIF SSD. Apparently, the life span of these drives is 5 years - begs the question Why did they decided to use an unusual type of drive? OK, it's got low power consumption and fits in a nice small space, but come on Sony - HDDs fail over time (particularly ones fitted to laptops - I have a bag full of them to prove it) and unless you're going to fit a drive with a huge life expectancy surely you should considder availability of spares? I'll answer a couple of other peoples posts while I'm here to give something back to the community. So, anyone had any experience or have any usefull input other than don't bother?Ĭheers for any info anyone can provide. What's more, a little research throws up a handfull of people who've attempted to replace it (at vastly higher than usual prices for standard 2.5" drives) with SSDs and have got nowhere after having paid out vast sums of money for a very unusual form factor SSD. It uses a relatively unusual 1.8" drive (Toshiba MK1011GAH). Unfortunately, what would normally be a fairly routine data recovery, HDD replacement and re-build / product recovery is a *little* more complicated. I have one in with classic signs of hard disk failure (can hear it's having trouble reading data and OS now fails to load - presumably corrupt files / read failure). Anyone have any experience of replacing the internal disk on a TZ21?
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