Active Protection System Sensor - in HDD or X61s? +partition

[iamdmc]

I'm hoping to upgrade my 5k160 120GB 1.5GB/s Hitachi drive to a 120GB Seagate 7200rpm SATA 3GB/s drive. I'm wondering, though, if I'll still be able to use the active protection system software to protect the drive. Is the movement sensor in the thinkpad itself or in the hard drive? Also, would anyone recommend Seagate's new "G-Force Sensor" - which is a copy-cat of the active protection system. If the X61s has it built in already, the systems might conflict and so I would buy just the regular drive (it'd be cheaper too!)

Thanks in advance.

P.S. Is there any way I can make a recovery partition on the new drive? Has anyone ever used it? In my time with Thinkpads, I've never used it, mostly because I didn't know what it does exactly.

[ryengineer]

1. APS is independent of hard disk drive, it's the integrated motion sensor (gyro) that does the job in conjunction with the ThinkVantage Active Protection System software. I don't think there would be any conflict though.

2. Use Product Recovery Disks.

[steveg47]

Also, would anyone recommend Seagate's new "G-Force Sensor" - which is a copy-cat of the active protection system.

Seagate's G-Force Sensor is a nice feature but redundant if this drive will be used exclusively in your thinkpad. I would not pay extra for this feature unless you are planning to put this drive in an external enclosure or a laptop that does not have APS.

[iamdmc]

Thanks for the quick responses everyone!

I'll pick it up tomorrow.