Comments on: Sony VAIO Pro 13 Ultrabook M.2 Native PCIe SSD Review – 1GB/s Performance Fastest Ultra Speed To Date

By: William Lee

William Lee — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 16:54:40 +0000

I have a Sony Vaio Pro 13 SVP132A1CL with 256GB MZHPU256HCGL-00000 SSD. Tried to upgrade with a M2 NVME PCIe SSD but BIOS won’t even detect it. Saw from youtube someone mentioning that only M2 SATA SSD would work, so went ahead to get a 1TB Timetec SATA 3 M2 2280 SSD. It worked, with Windows 10 freshly installed!!
Now, I don’t seem to be able to find an enclosure for this 256GB MZHPU256HCGL-00000 SSD. None of my PCIe, SATA or Dual PCIe/SATA enclosures worked.

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 09:36:15 +0000

In reply to Les Tokar. That's both interesting and possibly frustrating! I'd really like to recover some files from that drive.

By: Les Tokar

Les Tokar — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 21:21:50 +0000

In reply to Simon. The difficulty here is that your SSD is a PCIe SSD that is not based on the NVMe protocol. I don't know if there is a reader for that and, in fact, finding a replacement SSD might be a tad difficult as well.

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 20:06:47 +0000

I kept a pcie ssd from a vaio pro 13 that failed. I bought a generic reader from ebay but it wouldn’t mount this drive. I think it was an issue of it being a b or b/m key reader not a m key. Can anyone with technical knowledge of this recommend a USB reader for one of the pcie based ssd drives from this laptop? If not specifically, then the spec requirement.

By: Speeddemon

Speeddemon — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 19:31:23 +0000

From what I’ve read online it looks like bios modification is required. If that’s the case I will just settle for the WD 500 blue sata m2 for extra space and still faster than the original ssd.