Replacing Optical with HD/SSD in SA/SB/SC/SD series

[Stradevarius]

Great guide Lazybee, I was glad to hear that the weight difference is minimal. Still that crack bothers me, I don't to mar my new beauty.

Stradevarius

[Stormblade83]

I got an other caddy from a retailer here in Germany and i just got my SSD five minutes ago. I'll try to install it tonight. When it works, i'll give you the link to the shop here in Germany.

Also for the faceplate i send a request to Sony's official german spare part distributor. I'll keep you informed on this too.

Thank you very much that would really be great!

[mitpianoman]

Does anyone know if the vaio SA supports SATA 6? I'm thinking of following Lazybee's guide to put in a HDD and add a vertex 3 SSD in place of the ODD, but don't want to spend on the vertex 3 if my speeds will be limited to sata 3.

btw, thanks Lazybee!

[lazybee]

Does anyone know if the vaio SA supports SATA 6? I'm thinking of following Lazybee's guide to put in a HDD and add a vertex 3 SSD in place of the ODD, but don't want to spend on the vertex 3 if my speeds will be limited to sata 3.

btw, thanks Lazybee!

Happy to be of assistance!

The SA does support SATA 6 in the HDD bay. It does appear, from what I know so far that the ODD bay is limited to SATA 3. You could make the vertex 3 work, but would have to swap it for the HDD to take full advantage of it.

[niebyl2002]

Happy to be of assistance!

The SA does support SATA 6 in the HDD bay. It does appear, from what I know so far that the ODD bay is limited to SATA 3. You could make the vertex 3 work, but would have to swap it for the HDD to take full advantage of it.

Hmmm.

Main HDD is SATA 3 - 6Gb/s
ODD bay is SATA 2 - 3Gb/s

Never heard of SATA 6 . I think you meant 6Gb/s.

[Stormblade83]

Does anyone know if the vaio SA supports SATA 6? I'm thinking of following Lazybee's guide to put in a HDD and add a vertex 3 SSD in place of the ODD, but don't want to spend on the vertex 3 if my speeds will be limited to sata 3.

btw, thanks Lazybee!

Just do it the other way round. Swap the ODD with your harddrive and put the Vertex 3 in the original hdd place. Then you will get maximum speed on your ssd and the bigger capacity of your HDD at the same time.

[trivolve]

is the ODD bay swappable easily between the HDD caddy and the ODD? You'll need an additional face-plate for that, right?

[lazybee]

You would need an additional face plate, however I don't believe it would be advisable as the internal Sata connections are not made for hot swapping or multiple re connections. I also found that the caddy was a tighter fit than the odd and was somewhat difficult to re-seat. Perhaps you will have more luck with it though.

[niebyl2002]

You would need an additional face plate, however I don't believe it would be advisable as the internal Sata connections are not made for hot swapping or multiple re connections. I also found that the caddy was a tighter fit than the odd and was somewhat difficult to re-seat. Perhaps you will have more luck with it though.

For a fraction of a second I had same idea but then (lize lazybee said) internal sata connections wasn't meant for repeating use.

My caddy also fit tighter than odd but still was very easy to install.

[mitpianoman]

For anyone else thinking of ordering the spare bezel, I called in my order since the Sony Parts store was down yesterday. I paid the $2.49 for 5-7 day ground shipping for a total of $12.14 with New York tax. It arrived via fedex next day. One of the fastest orders I've ever received actually - less than 18 hours since the time of the call.

Unfortunately, the rep couldn't tell me which color silver I needed for my "platinum silver" Vaio SA. They had two options: "Silver" and "Light silver". Light silver was backordered, so I took a chance with the regular silver one. It's several shades too dark though, so I'm going to exchange it.