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[mvt91@xxxxxxx]

Hello,

I really enjoy my SVZ13 too. Some on other people too, because they robbed it.
But the police brought (only) my PC back a few months after :)

I can't give you many answers but :
1) the SSD > 256 Go is very expansive. It is an old machine now... I'm not
sure the prices will go down :( The Sony connector is a specific one... But,
sure, that one should be very interesting
(http://www.drivesolutions.com/cgi/shop/uvstore.cgi?command=listitems&kind=dupgrdss-sata&comptype=sol1540&cadname=VAIO-SVZ-1311ZDZB&pos=0&type=itemid&itemid=sssata1
)
2) I did a successful installation with Ubuntu 14.04 (SSD not in raid mode, two
disks, 128*2 go). It worked very well, including dual boot mode. When the police
restored the PC to me I've to reinstall everything. But now, I can't access to
Ubuntu in the dual boot mode even if I change the boot order with bcdedit. May
be the bios has been altered. I can't flash the last release. I don't know where
I can get it.
3) Don't know. is seems possible... or not

Best regards

MVT

Selon Nikhil Somaru <nsomaru@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Hello Folks,
>
> I really do enjoy my SVZ13. I've got the quad core i7 with 256GB SSD and
> 8GB RAM.
>
> A few questions:
>
>    1. Has anyone successfully upgraded the SSD to 512GB? I've found a
>    couple cards that claim to be compatible on ebay and aliexpress. Like
>    this
>
>
<https://www.aliexpress.com/item/New-Raid-LIF-SATA-512GB-SSD-For-Sony-VAIO-VPCZ2-Series-VPC-Z2-Z22-Z23-Z21/32720927966.html>.
>    However if there's 1TB I'd love to get that in instead!
>    2. Has anyone succesfully installed linux (preferably debian stable
>    [maybe with some unstable backported packages etc]) and got it to
> recognise
>    the disk as one striped disk using the intel based RAID, rather than two
>    separate disks? The one install guide that I found claims that this is not
>    possible.
>    3. Has anyone been able to increase the RAM to 16GB or even 32GB? Could
>    you link to the modules that you purchased? I run VMs for dev work and the
>    extra RAM would be really useful to get the machine to go a few more
> years.
>    Alternatively if the processor is going to be a bottleneck or SSD based
>    swap will be good enough for the VMs, then please indicate so. AFAIK the
>    processor supports up to 32GB.
>    4. I have broken the flimsy sim tray. How to replace it?
>
> There's nothing on the market that really necessitates me changing my
> machine, it really is a performance beast. Want to give it a breath of new
> life!
>
> --
> Yours,
> Nikhil Somaru
>