Comments on: How to disassemble Sony Vaio TZ laptop and remove hard drive

By: Suebase

Suebase — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:22:57 +0000

Ok it’s working now.
I replaced in Sony TZ21NM the Toshiba HDD 100 GB with RENICE K3VLAR SSD 240GB. I cloned the whole HDD with EaseUs ToDoBackUp (Free) to the SSD.

By: Paulo Olinger

Paulo Olinger — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:17:28 +0000

@Suebase….Just installed a 120GB Renice K3VLAR E on a fresh install of W7…its a plug and play situation…no problems whatsoever

By: Suebase

Suebase — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:29:53 +0000

Did anyone try the RENICE K3VLAR SSD 240GB. Does it work? Is the SDD known by BIOS?

By: Laptop Tech

Laptop Tech — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:27:52 +0000

Bruce,

Your photo shows the HD model no as: Toshiba MK1011GAh but hen I look at the specification for this, it is 8mm high. You mention that there is only 5mm available height in the system for the drive.

Where did I mention that there is only 5mm available hight?

Can you go to the BIOS menu and see if the hard drive model mentioned in there?

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:35:17 +0000

I have a Tony TZ 160C which I believe should have the same hard drive space as the other TZ series. Sony does not appear to want to give any of this info to me.

I am trying to find out what the correct replacement drive is before I take the laptop apart.

Your photo shows the HD model no as: Toshiba MK1011GAh but hen I look at the specification for this, it is 8mm high. You mention that there is only 5mm available height in the system for the drive.

Am I misreading this?

Can you can help me?

Sony does not want to help at all

Thank you

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 21:27:46 +0000

The toshiba hdd1789 drive is FINE and working, i just need a USB adapter of some sort so i can copy data to my working computer, nothing I have works with the small connector.

What can I but to do that?

By: Paulo Olinger

Paulo Olinger — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:59:27 +0000

Replaced the 64GB SSD SAMSUNG with a 120GB SSD RENICE K3VLAR…

By: Laptop Tech

Laptop Tech — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:39:40 +0000

@ D.N.
I don’t know if these connectors are compatible. I’ve never done something like this myself.
Probably you should email this question to the manufacturer.

By: D.N

D.N — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:20:54 +0000

hi guys,

Thank you very much for your guide! It is awesome and works well for my TZ-93S

I have the stock Toshiba Mk1014gah and would like to upgrade my TZ with a SSD. I read that the MK1014GAH has a LIF connector. I can’t find any SSD with LIF connector.

Could I fit a SSD with ZIF connector instead? If yes, does this one work.

Thank you very much for your answer!

Best regards,

D.N

By: Raymond

Raymond — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:58:06 +0000

Thank you, well explained and good photos.