Comments on: Sony Vaio UX 64GB solid state upgrade http://hackaday.com/2008/12/16/sony-vaio-ux-64gb-solid-state-upgrade/ Fresh hacks every day Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:41:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: simon http://hackaday.com/2008/12/16/sony-vaio-ux-64gb-solid-state-upgrade/comment-page-1/#comment-55778 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:18:07 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7002#comment-55778 Wow, this is cool. How much did it increase the battery life?

]]> By: alan http://hackaday.com/2008/12/16/sony-vaio-ux-64gb-solid-state-upgrade/comment-page-1/#comment-55731 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:28:52 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7002#comment-55731 Replacing all the 8Gb flash cards with 16Gb ones would be the easiest way of squeezing a little (or a lot) more out of the space.

]]> By: paul http://hackaday.com/2008/12/16/sony-vaio-ux-64gb-solid-state-upgrade/comment-page-1/#comment-55668 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:21:43 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7002#comment-55668 If it was a good idea or not just the fact that it could be done is why I like it.
I have an old laptop with a 4gig cf card and xp installed. I originally used one for school but found out that I was getting 2x more battery life out of it (8hrs). Also it was very quiet and cool without that hard drive. Now I have several laptops & tablet pcs all with ssd or cf cards.
Something else you can think about… With no moving parts you can drop a cf/ssd card from a distance without it breaking.

]]> By: Clay http://hackaday.com/2008/12/16/sony-vaio-ux-64gb-solid-state-upgrade/comment-page-1/#comment-55620 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:23:19 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7002#comment-55620 Meh, I could see swapping the HDD over to one or two LARGE CF cards, But thats it. I’d just as soon do without the space as to have it scattered out over 37 small volumes. But to each his own…

]]> By: Jorn http://hackaday.com/2008/12/16/sony-vaio-ux-64gb-solid-state-upgrade/comment-page-1/#comment-55617 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:03:55 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7002#comment-55617 Laura,

The idea of this hack was to INCREASE the storage and improve the batt life at a reasonable price, the HP TX2500 you mention has a 250Gb SATA HD so you’d be losing a lot of storage there.

RE: Recommendations, if you can get something made by a Japanese company with an extended warrantee you can’t go wrong. Toshiba are VERY good as are Fujitsu, I’m not a Sony fanboy however, they are overpriced. Whatever you get, if you “Upgrade” it to XP or Linux you’ll get a lot more speed.

]]> By: Steve Shockley http://hackaday.com/2008/12/16/sony-vaio-ux-64gb-solid-state-upgrade/comment-page-1/#comment-55616 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:03:44 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7002#comment-55616 Reminds me of when I crammed 14 narrow SCSI disks in my ’486 tower.

]]> By: strider_mt2k http://hackaday.com/2008/12/16/sony-vaio-ux-64gb-solid-state-upgrade/comment-page-1/#comment-55614 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:42:26 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7002#comment-55614 I see what’s being done, there’s just a _lot_ of it going on.
A compact flash card does indeed work for something like this, but if there are many reads/writes going on it’ll reduce the life of that card. (easy enough to back up, eh? ;) )
If the thing has 2gb of RAM and they’re running Windows they can turn off the swap file, which will help quite a bit. (not sure how vista handles that, sorry.)

My question is if the system itself is taxed in any way by having all those USB flash memory devices plugged in all the time?
I’d like to see some benchmarks.
I’m sure it works great, but I wouldn’t want the management hassles of all those drives either.

I have a netbook that I’ve installed a 16gb USB flash drive inside of as well, but I hesitate to install a hub or additional devices because of concerns over system resources.

Looks like it all came together pretty well though. Congrats on the successful mods!

]]> By: jack http://hackaday.com/2008/12/16/sony-vaio-ux-64gb-solid-state-upgrade/comment-page-1/#comment-55591 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:07:58 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7002#comment-55591 linux with unionfs => one big volume

]]> By: laura http://hackaday.com/2008/12/16/sony-vaio-ux-64gb-solid-state-upgrade/comment-page-1/#comment-55565 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:20:20 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7002#comment-55565 would it be possible to do this to a tx2500? i want to try and do this for my next laptop. i don’t want to buy a sony…

either this http://variableghz.com/2008/11/hp-pavilion-tx2500-review/

or a toshiba of some kind; any recommendations?

]]> By: andrew http://hackaday.com/2008/12/16/sony-vaio-ux-64gb-solid-state-upgrade/comment-page-1/#comment-55558 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:02:33 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7002#comment-55558 how is cramming a bunch of flash drives into a device “brilliant”? am i missing something here? geez, it’s like someone dug a hole in a sandbox and all the kiddos are crowding around admiring it. not to talk down to anyone specifically, and i’m not saying the hack is bad at all, but seriously, i don’t see why it merits so much attention.

]]> By: camerin http://hackaday.com/2008/12/16/sony-vaio-ux-64gb-solid-state-upgrade/comment-page-1/#comment-55546 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:50:19 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7002#comment-55546 i do like the 4 micro sd card reader at the very end. it was really kinda neat.

]]> By: Solenoidclock http://hackaday.com/2008/12/16/sony-vaio-ux-64gb-solid-state-upgrade/comment-page-1/#comment-55542 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:22:41 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7002#comment-55542 This is a brilliant hack, I love it when people try to optimize the packing efficiency of an engineered device.

]]> By: Jorn http://hackaday.com/2008/12/16/sony-vaio-ux-64gb-solid-state-upgrade/comment-page-1/#comment-55537 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:28:10 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7002#comment-55537 Some facts:

Big improvement in battery life

The Sandisk Extreme IV CF card is MUCH faster than the old 30Gb drive and easily big enough to boot XP from. It’s also a lot faster than the no-name 16Gb CF Card in the “crippled speed” PIO slot.

Google a 64Gb SSD drive in 1.8″ form and you’ll see why it was done this way.

All of the cards can be upgraded in size as larger cheap cards become available.

This ISN’T my hack, I just posted it and I think it’s brilliant.

]]> By: zeroxeal http://hackaday.com/2008/12/16/sony-vaio-ux-64gb-solid-state-upgrade/comment-page-1/#comment-55534 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:22:58 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7002#comment-55534 This is getting to be a bit ridiculous…. that looks bearly even hack worthy.

]]> By: DanAdamKOF http://hackaday.com/2008/12/16/sony-vaio-ux-64gb-solid-state-upgrade/comment-page-1/#comment-55523 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:04:39 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7002#comment-55523 Can he even RAID that?

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