Some questions about SATA Ultrabay on T43

[nanodario]

Hello everyone,
I have a T43 1871-CTO and I was thinking to buy an Ultrabay slim SATA caddy (this) and this hard disk.

These are the questions:
- Is the HDD compatible with the SATA caddy?
- Is there any capacity limit for the HDD in my T43?
- Will APS stop even the 2nd HDD?
- Will the HDD led indicator blink if there is some activity on 2nd HDD?
- Can I boot from 2nd HDD?

Thank you for any answer

[Cigarguy]

Yep that will work just fine. I have a T42 with a SATA SSD in the Ultrabay via a caddy. The SSD is my boot drive running Linux Mint Debian Edition XFCE. Before that it was Windows 7. Switching from Win 7 to LMDE was the best thing I did on this machine. In the main HDD bay, I have a 60 GB PATA HDD (slow) that is used for data. The SSD is nothing fancy, just a 32 GB SLC Samsung drive that I picked up new old stock for $20.

You can use SATA drives up to 2 TB in the Ultrabay. Anything bigger than that do not play nice with non-UEFI BIOS.

APS will work, the HDD led will blink and you can boot from any device that you set in BIOS.

[nanodario]

Great! I'm buying everything today

[Johan]

As small hint about using bootable SATA drives in the UltraBay (and avoiding the boot delay); see the sticky GUIDE: Make your T4x *FAST* by replacing the HDD with a SSD! and notice especially this:

In this post the following very interesting information is shared by TioFrancotirador:

Question: Can this approx. 30 sec. boot-delay be completely avoided/circumvented if a (non-bootable) PATA HDD or SSD, or a "PATA SD card"? (any links to the latter??), is mounted in the main HDD drive bay?

Yes. I do not have 30s delay in boot. I have SSD in UltraBay with Win 7 as main boot. In main IDE drive, where previously I had regular PATA HDD drive, now I have small PATA SD Card reader with an old 1GB card inserted into it. Works great.

Johan

[nanodario]

I want to keep the 1st PATA HDD in the main slot so I should not have the boot delay, shouldn't I?