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    Y510p Ultrabay Problems

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by humanbe1ng, Mar 30, 2014.

  1. humanbe1ng

    humanbe1ng Newbie

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    My setup is the Y510p 750m SLI. Im really enjoying the performance but a major drawback is the low battery life. With the SLI setup, even with SLI disabled, i only get 2.25 hours on very lower brightness and everything turned down. I did what many others did by removing my second GPU and instaling the intel driver to activate NVIDIA optimus. So far it is going well and im getting 5+ hours of battery life. The major problem with this setup is the ultrabay slot is empty (because i pulled out the second GPU and you have to keep it out to use Nvidia Optimus) and it will likely collect dust without anything in it. Unfortunately, Lenovo does not sell any NON-graphics option for the Ultrabay slot for the Y510p. That includes regular dvd drive, blu ray drive, or even the crappy fan. They only sell the second GPU card which i already have.

    Question: What home-made options do i have to fill that ultrabay slot so that dust cannot acculate inside my laptop. It doesnt even need to be functional (could just be an empty cover) though i would prefer it to be functional.

    Right now I am thinking of trying to slot a SSD into the laptop. I figure i would put the SSD internally and put my current 1TB HDD in the ultrabay slot using a caddy. One problem with this is that my current 1TB HDD has a 24GB SSD cache. Would the new SSD (which i intend ot use as the bootup drive) conflict with the SSD cache of the HDD.
     
    humanbe1ng, Mar 30, 2014
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  2. LanceAvion

    LanceAvion Notebook Deity

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    http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/...?hide_menu_area=true&GroupID=460&Code=0C22232

    Here's the official Lenovo HDD/SSD caddy. The 24GB cache that you're refering to is actually an M.2 SSD, and is in a seperate slot than the HDD. So you actually have a M.2 SSD slot, a 2.5" internal drive bay and the ultrabay 2.5" caddy. Simply put, just reformat your cache SSD, replace it, or remove it and there will be no conflict.
     
    LanceAvion, Mar 31, 2014
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  3. humanbe1ng

    humanbe1ng Newbie

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    $110 is a lot to pay for a HDD caddy. is there an alternative?
     
    humanbe1ng, Mar 31, 2014
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    Sadly not, Lenovo removed the affordable 30$ fan and 70$ DVD burners from their site, no one knows why.
     
    Jobine, Mar 31, 2014
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    LanceAvion, Mar 31, 2014
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    humanbe1ng Newbie

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    are the y410p and y510p ultrabay slots the same? Lenovo people say the y510p doesnt fit other parts
     
    humanbe1ng, Apr 2, 2014
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