[ltp] is it possible to boot a SATA drive from Ultrabay on a T410?

[Pedro Ribeiro]

Sweet!

Any idea what kind of performance I can get from the ultrabay sata controller?

In other words, would an ssd perform the same in the ultrabay?

Regards,
Pedro

On 06/11/2010, Dan M. <likuidkewl@gmail.com> wrote:
> I can't say for a T410 but I have done this on my r61. You simply
> select which drive to boot from. Simple :)
>
> On 06/11/2010, Pedro Ribeiro <pedrib@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> my company is upgrading our laptops to the T410.
>> I will be getting one of these soon and I had the idea of fitting the
>> SATA drive from my T400 in the Ultrabay so I can boot my Linux system
>> out of it.
>>
>> The reason for this is that I tend to travel a lot and since I don't
>> take my personal laptop I am forced to use Windows instead of my
>> heavily customized Linux environment, which I very much prefer.
>> Whenever necessary, I would hibernate Linux and go back to Windows as
>> required.
>>
>> I have to go through all this trouble because the Windows drive is
>> encrypted, and changing anything is a breach of the company policy.
>>
>> Is this possible? Does anyone have similar requirements and how do you
>> solve such a problem?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Pedro
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