ultrabay second hard drive

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geckocha · #1 Post by **geckocha** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:57 pm

Hi all,

I'd like to upgrade the hard drive capacity of my T43 (only 60Go for the moment).
I have read a few things about problems w/ putting a non-lenovo hard-drive in the T43.

Can anybody confirm me that i can put any ATA-100 hard-drive with the ultrabay slim adapter in my T43?

If i understand well, i can put so a Seagate Momentus 5400.3 - 160 Go? Seagate provides a 5years warranty!
Do you have others to advise me?

That way the softs would work on the main drive and i could put datas in the ultrabay drive without having to connect anything.
Where can i buy the ultrabay slim adapter for cheap?

Thank you very much for helping me to clear the informations i piched up.

#2 Post by **richk** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:28 pm

You can use any 2 1/2" 9mm thick ATA drive

SHoTTa35 · #3 Post by **SHoTTa35** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:38 pm

you can get the UB slim adapter in many places, ebay or from the marketplace. I got one online for i think $25 or less... i forgot.

Anyways, to your question.. you can put ANY 2.5" 9MM drive in the UltraBay HD Adapter. For the normal HD bay you can put basically all Hitachi drives there which are the best anyways,

So yes you should be able to get one from Newegg or whatever and put it in.

geckocha · #4 Post by **geckocha** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 5:31 pm

Thank you for your answer.

SHoTTa35 wrote: you can put ANY 2.5" 9MM drive in the UltraBay HD Adapter.

ANY? whatever ATA-100, ATA-150 or SATA...?

Otherwise, what do you think about the Seagate drives? A reliable but cheap one could be the best for me, i don't really need monster possibilities, just to store music, video and to work photos on photoshop...quite basical stuffs.
I know it's a matter of belief but Hitachi, seagate, WD...? I would ban only fujitsu!

Anyhow, would a second drive slow down my T43? I was thinking about upgrading my cache memory (512Mo for now).
1,5Go would be sufficient or is it necessary to upgrade to 2Go according to the new drive?

And to finish, can i run a linux boot on the UB HD without any risk?

Thanks

#5 Post by **richk** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:29 pm

It needs to be a PATA drive, not SATA. ATA 100 is fine.

sjthinkpader · #6 Post by **sjthinkpader** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 12:40 am

I would not run two drives in a T43. Splitting the OS and Applications will make maintenance much harder. The T43 will give an error with an unsupported drive but it will let you boot. I have a Hitachi 7K100 drive in my T43 now.

I think Fujitsu drives are supported and you can get 160GB with them. They are very reliable drives.

geckocha · #7 Post by **geckocha** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 5:30 am

sjthinkpader wrote:I would not run two drives in a T43. Splitting the OS and Applications will make maintenance much harder. The T43 will give an error with an unsupported drive but it will let you boot. I have a Hitachi 7K100 drive in my T43 now.

I think Fujitsu drives are supported and you can get 160GB with them. They are very reliable drives.

So i can or i cannot use a UB HDD if i only store datas on it? It won't give an error, will it? Error isn't just if you change the main drive with a non-lenovo one?

ulrich.von.lich · #8 Post by **ulrich.von.lich** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 5:57 am

Yes you can use a USB HDD without any problem. And yes the 2010 error only occurs if the HDD happens to be the main drive.

The error won't affect the performance of the HDD, but it's still quite annoying to see. As sjthinkpader stated, I also heard some Fujitsu drives will work out of the box without showing the 2010 message but not all of them I'm afraid.

ThaDon · #9 Post by **ThaDon** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 5:18 pm

I'm currently running Hitachi 60GB primary and Hitachi 40GB in the Ultrabay, works perfectly well. You don't really notice much performance loss either.

Only downside being the laptops slightly heavier on the right handside.

I wouldn't recommend installing apps on the Ultrabay drive, or setting your virtual memory on the other disk... Keep it simple!

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