What type of hard disk can be used in the second drive bay ?
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If you haven't bought their enclosure and VESA mount, I recommend you don't. I would buy a USB 3.0 external drive that should work nicely in one of the two USB 3.0 ports on your Lenovo. You could even buy your own USB 3.0 external hard drive enclosure from a manufacturer, such as OWC, and buy an appropriate external 7200 rpm hard drive. Either solution would be much cheaper and faster at transferring data, and either one would not be limited to 5400 rpm and 500 GB or less. If you already bought Lenovo's VESA mount and second hard drive enclosure, I think you have to use a 2.5 inch, maximum of 500 GB, spinning at 5400 rpm. It wasn't easy to find these specs on Lenovo's web site. The site apparently only provides specs for their proprietary Lenovo drives for their enclosure, and I had to dig for those specs. It's unclear if you can add a non-proprietary drive in their enclosure. Unfortunately, this is where my answer is lacking; you might have to contact Lenovo directly to find out if their enclosure can handle non-proprietary drives.
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You can as long as where your present Hard drive is incaged. Me I found that an enclosed case (Metal box case) you cannot use this item because it sticks out to far. Hope this helps.
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Yes, two hard drives are accessible at the same time with this device; it works great!
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this is a normal hard disk, so you can copy whatever files you want, however you will make the most of it if you actually replace your internal hard disk with this one, and then put the other disk in an external USB enclosure
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Yes, just be sure you do not install any programs on the drive or they may not run. If you are using the 2nd drive just for data it should be fine.
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Any external USB hard drive can be used via the USB ports, the seagate HD is necessary to for the "convenient" slide in interface (it still leaves both USB ports open)
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Hi, Yes there is another bay for a 2nd Hard drive. There is also another for a 2nd CD/DVD player. Connectors from power supply for 2nd devices already in place. IDE Cable needed for additional devices, the hard drive requires cable with a 90 degree connector on one end. Hope this helps. :-)
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Any new hard drive should work just fine. Look at pcpartpicker.com for a good resource to piece together compatible parts. Its an excellent site that allows you to choose your parts one by one, only showing other compatible parts.
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If you take the 2TB Seagate Backup Plus Slim drive out of its enclosure (this is a well documented procedure) the SATA drive inside should certainly be compatible with this unit.
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Sure. But if you are backing-up your OS, you should be doing that to a second physical internal hard drive.
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There is only one hard drive bay which is already occupied. If you do not use the optical drive you and remove it and get a hard drive caddy and put one in there.
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Nobody supplies such interfaces, you need to buy a 2.5" USB disk enclosure for it - they are inexpensive. You will be able to use it for your old HDD as a backup, thus it is a reasonable investment. Here is an example of such enclosure: Sabrent USB 3.0 To 2.5-Inch Sata Aluminum Hard Drive Enclosure Case (for 2.5-Inch SATA-I, SATA-II, SATA-III HDD and SSD) Black (EC-ABYM)
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Greetings,Great question!Yes, absolutely. The two drive types can be installed and utilized in conjunction with one another.Best regards,MITXPC
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Basic rule of thumb is that this will take up 2 slots. Exactly two. If you only have one Drive slot available, then no.
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I'm not sure. Perhaps you can just attach both drives and use windows to copy the files.
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You sure can. I have mine working with one WD red 3tb hard drive. Will upgrade to another one same capacity once I get this one full.
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This is not an internal or external hard drive. It is an external casing. So it does not matter what the OS is as long as you have USB support, the enclosure should work.