DIY by medah4rick
Tuesday, May, 15th, 2007 11:12:33I did put a SSD in the VEGA!
but i can't stress this enough...I don't recomend anyone trying it unless you know the consequences. first of all you are voiding the warranty. secondly, you are risking damaging the VEGA or expensive SSD. which i did. i lost the right speaker but some soldering should fix that. i also slightly scratched the controller board on the ssd - but it still works. on a side note the sandisk ssd uses samsung nands and a m-system controller.
so the only ZIF ssd's are the SanDisk 32GB. It's thickness is 8 or 9mm. What you have to do is open the ssd and reveal only the flash memory thus reducing the thickness. However, the thickness when naked is probably around 6mm. this doesn't allow a perfect fit into the vega. it actually makes the vega slightly plump but its ok because we are using flash memory and there aren't any moving parts.
the major performance upgrade i see so far is lower heat. battery life seems the same. boot times are similar. slightly faster awake from standby. overall snappier when calling up files. video performance seems better.
is it worth it? probably not for most users. but i enjoy the vega even more.
ps. memory is not upgradable. it's proprietary.
medah4rick, Tuesday, May, 22th, 2007 13:4:46
medah4rick, Tuesday, May, 22th, 2007 13:4:46
the hdd data transfer rate is 24MB/s tested using HDtune. I think the toshiba hd was around 21. i think its slightly faster. the great thing about ssd is the access times. its 0.2ms i think the cpu is now slowing up the computer overall.
medah4rick, Tuesday, May, 22th, 2007 13:12:39
The model i used is Sandisk SSD UATA 5000 1.8.
i want to make an update to my vega ssd. i like that sound of that VEGA SSD. the sandisk ssd can be further shrunk down to 5mm. i re-opened my vega and found out that i can remove a plastic holder that is sandwiched between the samsung nands and the msystems controller. SO NOW THE SSD FITS PERFECTLY INTO THE HARD DRIVE HOUSING AREA!
on a side note i was experiencing odd behavior from the ssd recently and today i lost the hdd connection. that is why i re-opened the device. what had happened was the controller board lost connection to the samsung nands. in my haste to remove the ssd from its casing i somehow loosened this connection and after weeks of daily use the thing disconnected. so all i did was snap that loose connector back in and now the vega ssd is back. but back better than ever now that i shrunk it down even further!
if i could only have known all this earlier.
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