180 gig hard drive on Thinkpad

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jjfcpa · #1 Post by **jjfcpa** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 8:57 pm

Yep, I've got one. Ordered the Ultrabay adapter and a 100 gig hard drive and I've now got an 80 gig primary hard drive and 100 gig 2nd drive. I now have it populated with over 15,000 photos that I can take with me everywhere instead of leaving them on an external hard drive.

Sahweet!

sugo · #2 Post by **sugo** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 9:37 pm

misleading title - should be 180 gb hard driveS

#3 Post by **BillMorrow** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 1:30 am

thats nothing..
i did that several years ago..
in my last A31p i had three drives at one time..
all 60gig 7200RPM drives..
one in the drive bay and one each in the two ultra bays..

zelchenko · #4 Post by **zelchenko** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 6:13 am

Bill,

Did you try to set up a software RAID 5 array? RAID 5 in a laptop--now that'd be cool.

Matt

DIGITALgimpus · #5 Post by **DIGITALgimpus** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 9:51 am

software raid in the a31 would be useless, simply because of the bus. only for data integrety purposes would it serve, not performance.

If it had any real performance value, I would have done it a long time ago.

Problem is, the performance is just to low on the system to take advantage of that.

Not sure what the newer T and R series could do though...

zelchenko · #6 Post by **zelchenko** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 11:56 am

You need a minimum of 3 identical-capacity drives to pull off RAID 5. That's the only reason I asked. I hadn't known before that any Thinkpad, past or present, was capable of holding 3 drives without a dock.

nirvana0001 · #7 Post by **nirvana0001** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 2:14 pm

i have 80GB primary and 250 external HDD which total is 330GB

jjfcpa · #8 Post by **jjfcpa** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:58 pm

nirvana0001 wrote:i have 80GB primary and 250 external HDD which total is 330GB

That's what I was doing before, but copying to and from the 250 LaCie external hard drive was too slow and I couldn't take it with me. Now, I just leave the 100 gig hard drive in the Utrabay slot all the time and I can have access to my 35 MB of photos anytime I want. It's also much faster.

ddutta · #9 Post by **ddutta** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 5:10 pm

Is the ultra bay drive access as fast as that of the boot drive. What would be the speed diff between a 7K100 100GB drive in ultrabay slim adapter vs replacing the boot hdd with it?

I have been using a external 2.5" drive with an enclosure all this while to store my photos etal. If the adapter leads to faster speeds, then I will get it.

Anyone knows where to buy an adapter for less money. IBM charges almost 50 bucks for this.

tehsoul · #10 Post by **tehsoul** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 11:02 am

i got a small little 2.5" hdd that draws power from a usb port
works like a charm, + other people can use it too

Volker · #11 Post by **Volker** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:01 pm

jjfcpa wrote:I now have it populated with over 15,000 photos that I can take with me everywhere instead of leaving them on an external hard drive.

Thats a lot of porn

#12 Post by **BillMorrow** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 1:38 am

zelchenko wrote:Bill,

Did you try to set up a software RAID 5 array? RAID 5 in a laptop--now that'd be cool.

Matt

no..
the buss would probably not support that..
though i DID have a customer who was trying a raid in an A series..
several years ago..
never heard whether he was successful or not..

and i agree with the other poster..
best use is for data integrity..

Boegh · #13 Post by **Boegh** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 12:39 pm

nirvana0001 wrote:i have 80GB primary and 250 external HDD which total is 330GB

Not cool

I have 2 80gigs in my T42... i just love it!
Did i mention i love my thinkpad?

Jmmmmm · #14 Post by **Jmmmmm** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:58 am

jjfcpa wrote:Yep, I've got one. Ordered the Ultrabay adapter and a 100 gig hard drive and I've now got an 80 gig primary hard drive and 100 gig 2nd drive. I now have it populated with over 15,000 photos that I can take with me everywhere instead of leaving them on an external hard drive.

Sahweet!

Yep, that's the same thing I have. I use it for a lot more than photos though

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