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Hard Drive upgrade

Ray--C — Tue, 03 May 2011 17:21:16 GMT

My Vaio comes with a 60g hard drive as standard. Is it possible to replace it with a larger capacity drive and if so, what make, model capacity is recomended?

Thanks RayC

Hard Drive upgrade

Blencogo — Tue, 03 May 2011 17:29:57 GMT

Hi RayC,

If you tell us which model you have we may be able to help.

Generally speaking, there is no limit on recent Vaios but for some earlier models released before XP SP1 there can be a limit of 137GB because that is the maximum the operating system can address without 48-bit Logical Block Addressing enabled - and this came with SP1.

Hard Drive upgrade

Ray--C — Tue, 03 May 2011 18:00:34 GMT

Hi and thank you for the prompt reply, it is much appreciated.

My Vaio is a VGN-S2VP/B I am not sure what 48-bit Logical Block Addressing means but If it is possible to install a larger size disk, do you have any recomendations about the Max Size, Make etc.

Thanks RayC

Oooops, it is a VGN-S4VP/B

Dorry for the misinformation.

RayC

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Hard Drive upgrade

Blencogo — Tue, 03 May 2011 19:57:09 GMT

Hi RayC,

Your model has a SATA Hard Drive so you should be able to put any size hard drive in as long as it is a SATA drive and the right physical size - 100 X 70 X 9.5mm.

All the makers of hard drives are good these days. Try Google for the following: -

Seagate Momentus SATA 2.5 inch

Hitachi Travelstar SATA 2.5 inch

Western Digital Scorpio SATA 2.5 inch

Samsung SATA 2.5 inch

Check the sizes - particularly the thickness - some discs are too thick at 12 or 13mm. You can go up to 500GB and 7,200 RPM.

This one is popular and will cost about 40€ (£37.50): -

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=61029937c0780210VgnVCM1000001a48090aRCRD

Hard Drive upgrade

Ray--C — Tue, 03 May 2011 23:39:56 GMT

Thank you so much for you valuable Help.