What do you mainly use your Ultrabay for?

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What do you mainly use your Ultrabay for?

Floppy Drive
3
9%
Harddrive
14
44%
Battery
1
3%
CD/DVD/Blue-ray
13
41%
Numpad
1
3%
Workcradle
0
No votes
Serial/parallel port adapter
0
No votes
 
Total votes: 32

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What do you mainly use your Ultrabay for?

#1 Post by Worzyl » Sun Nov 21, 2010 7:15 am

After receiving some valuable information from HarryC, I'm curious to know what people use their ultrabay for. Currently installed in my T60p is an under used CD/DVD drive. I may replace this with a Harddrive with XP or Linux, and replace the main drive with an installation of windows 7 (currently running XP).
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Re: What do you mainly use your Ultrabay for?

#2 Post by Harryc » Sun Nov 21, 2010 8:58 am

I voted for DVD and Hard drive, because that's what I use it for most of the time. Thanks for mentioning me as a source of information, however I never mentioned a Numpad (you asked about this and I said to use USB), floppy drive, or work cradle. I am not aware of any of those devices working in an Ultrabay Slim bay for a T60 machine. I think Ultrabay 2000 was the last bay to support a floppy drive.

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Re: What do you mainly use your Ultrabay for?

#3 Post by Neil » Sun Nov 21, 2010 9:11 am

I was able to choose three different devices, depending on the model we're talking about. The A3x machines have floppy drives, all the rest have optical drives. I have one HDD adapter that I switch around between machines as needed.
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Re: What do you mainly use your Ultrabay for?

#4 Post by Worzyl » Sun Nov 21, 2010 1:50 pm

Yes Harryc, you are indeed correct about the other optical devices not working in T60p. I was just curious to know what some of the members use an ultrabay for general.
T60p 2007-CT0 15" UXGA, ATI V5250, INTEL T7600, 3GB RAM, NMB Keyboard, HP Broadcom 4322AGN 802.11n Wireless Card, Sierra Wireless MC8775 WWAN, 250GB Momentus XT Hybrid drive

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Re: What do you mainly use your Ultrabay for?

#5 Post by Colonel O'Neill » Mon Nov 22, 2010 3:52 pm

Mine is uninhabited. :(
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X61T: L7500, 3GB RAM, 500GB HDD, XGA screen, Ultrabase
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Re: What do you mainly use your Ultrabay for?

#6 Post by Worzyl » Wed Nov 24, 2010 6:33 pm

Interesting results so far. Harddrive and CD/DVD are the most popular, but it's interesting to see the floppy still in action.
T60p 2007-CT0 15" UXGA, ATI V5250, INTEL T7600, 3GB RAM, NMB Keyboard, HP Broadcom 4322AGN 802.11n Wireless Card, Sierra Wireless MC8775 WWAN, 250GB Momentus XT Hybrid drive

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Re: What do you mainly use your Ultrabay for?

#7 Post by automobus » Wed Dec 01, 2010 10:00 pm

Where's the option for Iomega Zip? I use that the most. It is something in-between hard disk and floppy diskette. And as far as I know, the Ultrabay Plus devices are very uncommon. I used the UBP numeric keypad in the past, though less often than I used Zip disks.

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