Two hard drives?

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nitro2k01 · #1 Post by **nitro2k01** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 6:36 pm

I have a statement that I hope someone can disprove: You can only fit one hard drive into a 600E.
Has somebody fit two (Or even three) disks into a 600E? I guess the CD slot is just an IDE port, so you could theoretically make an adapter. Do such adapters exist already?

#2 Post by **rkawakami** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 6:40 pm

Two, without any other external adapters. I count the Ultrabay as an internal adapter.

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/UltraBay

nitro2k01 · #3 Post by **nitro2k01** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 6:46 pm

Well, the UltraBay doesn't have the same connector as my boot hard drive. So either I need an adapter or a non-standard disk.

Website · #4 Post by **tfflivemb2** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 6:53 pm

There is a Ultra Bay hard drive adapter that you can pick up relatively cheap on eBay. The hard drive fits right into it.

It looks like this one. (Note: they can be had for less than the one in this auction)

nitro2k01 · #5 Post by **nitro2k01** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 6:57 pm

That particular one is not right for 600E as it seems, but now I know what to look for, more or less. Thanks!

#6 Post by **rkawakami** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 7:00 pm

This is the proper one for the 600E/600X. The other one is for the Ultrabay 2000 not the Ultraslimbay.

eBay auction

(edit: DON'T buy this one if you don't have to. The one in tfflivemb2's post below is MUCH cheaper!)

Website · #7 Post by **tfflivemb2** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 7:06 pm

nitro2k01 wrote:That particular one is not right for 600E as it seems, but now I know what to look for, more or less. Thanks!

Oops.

You are absolutely right. I clicked to quickly.

Hereis the correct one.

440roadrunner · #8 Post by **440roadrunner** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 7:37 pm

The answer is simple. You need one of these:

ebay link

The 600 series uses an "Ultraslimbay", NOT an ultrabay, or ultrabay 2000 or whatever it's called.

dsigma6 · #9 Post by **dsigma6** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 7:28 am

hey lets keep posting similar links! i don't believe i paid more than $10 for mine, shipped. i would be patient if you don't feel like getting ripped off.

farna · #10 Post by **farna** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:47 pm

I went the cheap way out and bought a external drive enclosure that runs off the USB port. I mounted the 6GB drive in it when I upgraded the internal drive to a cheap 12GB drive. I've watched MPG movies from the external drive using the built-in USB port (1.1), so speed doesn't seem to be a problem.

I do have problems watching AVI movies, but have the same problem with the internal drive. The sound gets out of sync with the video after just a few minutes. Mine is a PII/233 with 288MB RAM, and I use PowerDVD 5.0. No problems with DVDs.

dsigma6 · #11 Post by **dsigma6** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:56 pm

farna wrote:The sound gets out of sync with the video after just a few minutes

That's the software.

nitro2k01 · #12 Post by **nitro2k01** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 5:38 pm

What I meant to ask before, also, but forgot, is whether you can use some sort of adapter to connect a regular IDE cable to the port?
Of course you would probably have to get +12V from another source, but that's my problem if I can find an adapter.

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