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I'm wondering if you have an SSD in your main HDD bay, and a platter-type HDD in your ultrabay- is the Active Protection System okay to install?

I'm thinking that APS is mainly concerned with the accelerometer (which an SSD does not have) and that the program would benefit the platter HDD in the ultrabay. Does this sound correct?

TIA.

hi
AFAIK...the APS only works on MAIN DRIVE BAY ..and as I havnt never been able to make APS work for ultrabay...

not sure you would ever need APS for SSD as I have both bays with them.

Hope this helps

cheers

emeraldgirl08 wrote:I'm wondering if you have an SSD in your main HDD bay, and a platter-type HDD in your ultrabay- is the Active Protection System okay to install?

I'm thinking that APS is mainly concerned with the accelerometer (which an SSD does not have) and that the program would benefit the platter HDD in the ultrabay. Does this sound correct?

TIA.

I've read two opposing opinions about APS in UltraBay. Not sure which one to believe. APS is not needed with a SSD because the purpose of APS is to use an accelerometer to park the drive heads to keep them from skating across the platters if it detects a fall or rapid motion. And of course, SSDs do not have heads or platters.

Here's a link from Lenovo on the subject:

http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/think/thinkvan ... h/aps.html

Actually I've already installed the SSD in the main bay and the platter drive in the ultrabay. I've also installed the Thinkvantage APS program.

I have movies, anime, and music on my platter drive and I've noticed that when it is playing a video it will pause when I pick up and move the Thinkpad around. I also notice in Control Panel>> Lenovo's Airbag Protection... that the picture of the Thinkpad will rotate in real time to the way I am holding the laptop. When I pick it up (gently) and pick up the right and drop the left of the Thinkpad the image in the program will do the same thing. When I bring the front of the Thinkpad down and raise the rear. The image will move accordingly also. This indicates to me that the accelerometer is functioning as it should.

My conclusion is that it does work with the platter drive in the Ultrabay. I've also set the drive to spin down in 1 minute. SSD is just blissfully quiet so when the hard drive spins up you can definitely hear it. So far SSD is very nice but requires a lot of reading to fine tune settings etc.

emeraldgirl08 wrote:Actually I've already installed the SSD in the main bay and the platter drive in the ultrabay. I've also installed the Thinkvantage APS program.

I have movies, anime, and music on my platter drive and I've noticed that when it is playing a video it will pause when I pick up and move the Thinkpad around. I also notice in Control Panel>> Lenovo's Airbag Protection... that the picture of the Thinkpad will rotate in real time to the way I am holding the laptop. When I pick it up (gently) and pick up the right and drop the left of the Thinkpad the image in the program will do the same thing. When I bring the front of the Thinkpad down and raise the rear. The image will move accordingly also. This indicates to me that the accelerometer is functioning as it should.

My conclusion is that it does work with the platter drive in the Ultrabay. I've also set the drive to spin down in 1 minute. SSD is just blissfully quiet so when the hard drive spins up you can definitely hear it. So far SSD is very nice but requires a lot of reading to fine tune settings etc.

Smart observations. I noticed the same behavior when experimenting with SSDs and the protection scheme many months ago.

I'm sure you're already spoiled by the speed jump with the SSD. Sounds like your machine is configured like mine, with operating system and documents on the solid state drive and multimedia on the ultrabay.