Recommended hard drive for Sony Vaio

[Oldjim]

As the hard drive has apparently failed - unmountable volume and all the usual fixes have failed - I need to replace it with a 1TB unit
Are any drives supplied by Scan shockproof or are the 2.5" drives effectively all the same

Note the contents - photos etc. - are being transferred to my main computer as I write using Ubuntu with the drive mounted as read only

[Lee H]

most hard-drives are similar in design so they all have similar force levels stated, so there's no true shockproof drives unless you probably use a SSD drive as these have no moving parts so are not subject to damage from bangs etc.

If you can advise on the Vaio model - I can check to see whats recommended.

Best Regards,

[Oldjim]

Thanks
However this is for a Sony laptop not a PS4 - is there a thickness option needed or should I just measure the existing one

[Lee H]

Check my sneaky edit - I was doing another query on a PS4 question and for some reason it carried across to this

[Oldjim]

Model is PCG-91211M and having managed to recover the files using a Ubuntu Live CD networked to my computer (I had to mount the disk as read only as it was unmountable) and checked the disk - an enormous number of unrecoverable sectors although stated as OK - a new disk is definitely called for

Fortunately - or is that unfortunately - it had already been upgraded to Win 10 so install and validation should be very simple as I assume that the motherboard has been registered somewhere in Microsoft's systems

[Lee H]

After checking, this laptop doesn't really have any limitations so it can accept SSD drives for much better performance. The only caveat I can see is it might have issues with the larger 12.5 mm thick HDD drives so please steer clear of these types.

For 1 TB 2.5" drives, the following are recommended ;

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1tb-t...8mb-cache-12ms

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1tb-h...cache-13ms-oem

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1tb-s...-3-compatible-

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1tb-w...-sata-iii-6gbs

Best Regards,

[Oldjim]

thank that gives a nice choice at a reasonable price level

[Oldjim]

To note - the Travelstar is quoted as having a 32GB cache - I assume that this is 32MB

Anyway that is the one I ordered

[Lee H]

Oldjim,

Yes it should have said 32 MB not GB for the cache - I've just actually rectified this on the products database so the website should be correct now.

Best Regards,

[Oldjim]

Drive arrived this morning - all fitted and Win 10 installed with no problems (automatic activation) - thanks

[marcparker]

As the hard drive has apparently failed - unmountable volume and all the usual fixes have failed - I need to replace it with a 1TB unit
Are any drives supplied by Scan shockproof or are the 2.5" drives effectively all the same

Note the contents - photos etc. - are being transferred to my main computer as I write using Ubuntu with the drive mounted as read only

I've just stuck a samsung evo 850 in my vaio as the main boot drive, then plan to rip out the dvdrw and install a 2nd hdd (1tb) for use as storage, as soon as the caddy arrives

[Mister]

The Samsung Evo SSDs are about the best drives you can buy at the moment. Then use an external USB3 drive for large data/backups

Also you will find replacing the mechanical drive with an SSD makes the battery last MUCH longer since they use a fraction of the power. Plus they produce almost no heat.