Hi,

Will this adapter work to allow us to use a 64gb ssd zif hdd in our tr2a laptops?

http://www.span.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=22105

Will there be enough room?  Will speed be hindered? etc. etc.

oh
and will the fujitsu zif pata cable work???

also,

I’m new to this forum if you can’t tell….and am wondering what is the easiest way to upgrade my dvd-rom to a dvd-rw?  what model do I need to puchase? 

thanks…...I hope we can figure a way to get the 64gb ssd to work.

Filmshoot - since SSD was never thought out to be part of our 3+ year old laptops, almost all new things like SSD have to be tested by someone on this forum (or maybe someone not part of it). Often times, we can analyze that it “should work”, based on the physical attributes, but most of the time, we all have to wait for one brave soul to take the testing plunge

With regards to the DVDRW upgrade, searching on the forum for “DVD” finds these results for you:

UJ-822
http://www.siliconpopculture.com/forum/viewthread/5026/

UJ-832S
http://www.siliconpopculture.com/forum/viewthread/5499/ - this is about the driver, but it gives good information about the physical makeup of the driver.

It looks like CF will be our only hope.  SSD has stopped production of 50pin ide pata at 32gb capacity (samsung) - no competitors i can see have followed with a 64gb version.

However,  Compact flash is moving quickly.  I’m looking at a delkin UDMA PCMCIA flash reader that can handle throughput of 45mb/s software will allow a CF card to be recognized as a removable disk.  My next upgrade will be a 32gb CF card inside of one of these UDMA pcmcia flash readers throughput will be 42-45mb/s

In comparison the performance will be better than our OEM Toshiba drives, however performance will lag slightly behind the SSD. 

When searching for a CF card make sure you get UDMA, and make sure it is SLC.  And make sure you check the read and WRITE rates, since the write rates are often much slower

that company I linked to above has a CF Card-IDE adapter…  Others have used this to replace their Laptop HDD’s,  I haven’t read of anyone doing it with a vaio yet,  any takers?  it would be a much cheaper experiment than say the ssd adapter I have up there. 

If no one attempts this, I will try to attempt it in about a month.  after I save up around $200 needed to buy the CF card/adapter.  (if it fails, i’ll just use the cf card in my pcmcia slot anyways =)

It’s been done now!

http://www.siliconpopculture.com/forum/viewthread/7532/