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SSD SATA replacement: need a caddy!

So, it’s my high school car all over again - should be an easy repair, but wtf, Sony?! I want to upgrade to a 1TB SSD SATA drive, but the innards are not playing nice. The caddy for my Vaio laptop (SVS151290X, model SVS151C1GL) is not SATA-compatible (see pics). I am aware that I need a different connector - Amazon has those… they don’t have the right caddy, though. Any ideas where I can get a compatible caddy? Thanks!

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That’s a 1.8” ZIF SSD (SATA). Good luck finding a native replacement without adapters that isn’t small and overpriced :-(. The only ones that tend to be available are 64-128GB since 256GB SSDs were so expensive at the time - hardly enough for daily use. You want a 256-512GB SSD. In order to retrofit a modern drive, you’ll need to change the drive cable with one that’s designed to work with 2.5” SATA drives to start. The caddy may be a challenge to find, so I would seriously consider using low tack double sided tape and forgetting about trying to find it. Do it on the label side without the serial number.

You got extremely lucky with this laptop. Most of these laptops are beyond help without hacks like 3D printed adapters to get it from uSATA to mSATA or completely hopeless in terms of fixing the issue. These laptops should be AVOIDED in the future to avoid dealing with this again unless it can be retrofitted or fixed with natively compatible parts. With laptops that can be fixed this way, it also opens your options up to use a M.2 with an adapter (M.2->SATA) if that’s all you can find. You may be able to find a close match caddy for it on eBay as well, but it may not line up 100% correctly due to the weird factory caddy.

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Thanks for the tip on double-sided tape! Yeah, it took me really researching to find the drive cable I need, and I am lucky I found one on Amazon for under $20. Next laptop will definitely not be a Sony!

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@Eric G Sony sold their computer division off anyway. Not to mention this is an issue on a *lot* of these but the issue is all but dead at the industry level anyway. Research the drive type if you have concerns first. I've let machines I bid on go to someone else because of this issue and picked standard ones - which is WHY you see a lot of them without drives because nobody knows how overly expensive it is to fix them... And they end up back on eBay for the next sucker.

You may be able to use a mildly standard caddy, but not all of the holes. Look for one that looks like a close enough match on eBay if you want to hold it in better.

It only impacts uSATA laptops and ZIF systems (12" HP EliteBook series/ThinkPad s (00-10) series/Thinkpad X300/301 and others).

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Eric G さん、ありがとうございました!
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