Non Lenovo harddrive - Bad Idea?

I was going to do an 80GB hardrive 5400 rpm and then do an upgrade to the aftermarket 200GB 7200rpm Hitachi drive. My question is, If I do this do I lose the active hardrive protection that Thinkpads have(i.e stops the drive in case of fall)? Do only Lenovo drives have active protection?

 

I don't think you will lose that feature; I believe it's more of a sftware feature than an HDD one. You just need to reinstall the ThinkVantage Active Protection System to restore that feature.

 

The Active Protection System is a function of the ThinkPad itself--not the hard drive. IOW the APS accelerometer sensor that detects the laptop's spatial orientation and whether or not it's falling is part of the motherboard.

That said a few other laptop brands also have a built-in accelerometer sensor, one example being Apple's MacBook Pro.

 

wasnt there some kind of program for the macbook pro that used the accelerometer and would do something depending on which side you smacked or tilted, sorry i cant remember exactly what it was.

 

Here's the link on the subject.

http://blog.medallia.com/2006/05/smacbook_pro.html

 

Non-Lenovo hard drives work fine, I use them. Active protection still works.

 

I see that there is an official IBM way to do this in linux, but is there any way that this can be achieved in windows xp?