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Thinkpad hard drive protection question

#1 Post by MikeCL » Fri Apr 26, 2013 6:05 pm

The program that stops the hard drive when shocks are felt is that just for the main drive or the ultrabay as well?

Seeing as I have a SSD it seems pointless to have it running?
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Re: Thinkpad hard drive protection question

#2 Post by MikeCL » Fri Apr 26, 2013 10:33 pm

Seems like it only works for the main drive.
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Re: Thinkpad hard drive protection question

#3 Post by twistero » Fri Apr 26, 2013 11:09 pm

I can confirm that Active Protection does work for an UltraBay HDD in my T61 FrankenPad.
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Re: Thinkpad hard drive protection question

#4 Post by ajkula66 » Fri Apr 26, 2013 11:16 pm

I have it disabled on all of my machines that sport an SSD...
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Re: Thinkpad hard drive protection question

#5 Post by MikeCL » Sat Apr 27, 2013 2:12 am

twistero wrote:I can confirm that Active Protection does work for an UltraBay HDD in my T61 FrankenPad.
Thanks, wasn't sure if it did or not.. better safe then sorry with the 750GB 7200 rpm drive going in with all my music samples


I figured it might of been when I noticed when I shook the laptop it stopped loading for a few .
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Re: Thinkpad hard drive protection question

#6 Post by yak » Sat Apr 27, 2013 8:04 am

It does work on UltraBay and it knows about SSDs. I used to have a T60 with SSD in the main bay and a spinning drive in UltraBay. I tried playing a video from both and it would freeze when I shook it (indicating that the drive has been parked) only when playing from the HDD in the UltraBay. The SSD remained unaffected.
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Re: Thinkpad hard drive protection question

#7 Post by MikeCL » Sat Apr 27, 2013 10:22 pm

Nice! Thanks I feel better now.
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