Some more details about hard drives with a T410s
Hi all,
So, needless to say, my T410s uses a 100 GB 1.8" Internal hard drive. The 1.8" drives are seeming to be harder find and more expensive by the day. I have recently purchased and installed the ultrabay hard drive adapter so I now have some questions about it's use:
- My 1.8" internal has 2.5 GB Free (Yikes!)
- Does anyone have any reccomendations as to the how to best put the new ultra bay drive to use? i.e. Transfer program files to run from it, boot from it...etc.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
- Patrick
I'd consider imaging everything over to the bigger drive and just removing the 1.8". One drive is better on power consumption than two, of course.
Consider enabling NTFS compression on the drive too; it's basically disk space for free.
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