T41 adding hard drive in ultrabay adapter?

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alivetoday · #1 Post by **alivetoday** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:59 am

Hello

I was thinking to take off dvd drive and instead add extra hard disk.

My question is if I buy Ultrabay Slim HDD Adapter, can I add any suitable hard disk or must it be some kind of special IBM manufactured hard disk

#2 Post by **GomJabbar** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 6:23 am

For a T41 you can use any suitable PATA disk. Just no SATA disk. Any brand will work without a problem.

chan_man · #3 Post by **chan_man** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:33 am

Any 9.5 mm drive standard ATA/IDE will work, just not SATA. Remember that when you do this, your battery life will be greatly reduced...

frankiepankie · #4 Post by **frankiepankie** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 5:17 am

Another question about the ultrabay adapter...

Is it plug & play?

I mean, can you take out the UltraBay HDD and put the DVD-ROM in while the laptop is running? So without shutting down or so?

#5 Post by **GomJabbar** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 5:37 am

frankiepankie wrote:Another question about the ultrabay adapter...

Is it plug & play?

I mean, can you take out the UltraBay HDD and put the DVD-ROM in while the laptop is running? So without shutting down or so?

You should either use the EasyEject Utility (Fn + F9) or Windows Safely Remove Hardware icon to stop the device before removal. You can plug the device in with Windows running.

#6 Post by **Johan** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 5:59 am

GomJabbar wrote:For a T41 you can use any suitable PATA disk. Just no SATA disk. Any brand will work without a problem.

The above statement may, or may not, be true (for the Ultrabay drive). I don't know (much) about the Ultrabay in T41's, but I guess it is identical to that used in other T4x's, incl. T43/p's which also is (only) intended to have a PATA-drive in its Ultrabay.

It is possible, however, to modify a T60-SATA-Ultrabay for use in a T43; this is discussed in this thread - see the post of Sat Aug 11, 2007, the part: "About usable Ultrabay-storage in T43’s".

Quite an interesting idea to investigate if the same will also hold for a T41? Again, I don't know this, but something seems to indicate a possibility! If some brave soul tries this out for a T41, kindly report back here about the good or bad result...

Best regards,

Johan

#7 Post by **bill bolton** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 6:23 am

Johan wrote:Quite an interesting idea to investigate if the same will also hold for a T41? Again, I don't know this, but something seems to indicate a possibility!

It only works on a T43 because it has a SATA disk controller. The earlier T4x models don't, so it wont work with them.

Cheers,

Bill

ymemuser · #8 Post by **ymemuser** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 2:40 pm

GomJabbar wrote:For a T41 you can use any suitable PATA disk. Just no SATA disk. Any brand will work without a problem.

Is it the same for T43? Just any suitable 2.5" HDD with any RPM?Thanks

#9 Post by **GomJabbar** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 6:39 pm

ymemuser wrote:Is it the same for T43? Just any suitable 2.5" HDD with any RPM?Thanks

Unfortunately no.
Note the T43's still use PATA hard drives, not SATA ones.

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_w ... hard_disks

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T41 adding hard drive in ultrabay adapter?

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