256GB SSD drive for T61?

Could someone recommend a 256GBSSD drive for T61, for example will TP 256GB Fde Solid State Drive Part# 43N3417 work on this Thinkpad model?
Thanks in advance,
Leonid

Hi. I have essentially the same question as the original poster, with a couple of related questions about hard drive compatibility.
I have a T61 model 64608VU, Windows XP Pro, with a 160 GB 7200rpm SATA drive now.
I would like to migrate to a (as large as possible) SSD drive for the primary drive, and a 2nd (as large as possible) hard disk drive as a secondary in an adapter in the optical drive bay. But, I'm getting conflicting information from the Lenovo site.
The product compatibility matrix says that my model should be compatible with the 500 GB 5400 SATA drive (43N3420), 500 GB 7200 SATA drive (43N3423) and 128 GB SSD drive (43N3406), but not the 256 GB FDE SSD drive (43N3417). The 128GB SSD is a new choice, when I checked a few months back it wasn't shown as compatible.
The product pages for many of those drives list models that they are compatible with, and do not include T61. Some don't even come up as choices if I enter 64608VU as my model numbers, others do but the text on the page lists models they work with and it doesn't include mine.
So, which info to trust?
I can more easily understand a "supports FDE or not" tradeoff because it requires a BIOS that knows how to talk to that feature, but I can't quite figure why a 500GB 5400rpm drive would be OK but a 500GB 7200rpm wouldn't, unless it was heat load or something. Might be a different answer in the optical bay vs primary drive?
Anyway, this is what I'd like to do:
1) Start with the T61, model 64608VU
2) Buy a SATA drive adapter 40Y8725, with the largest SSD drive I can get, ideally with FDE as well
3) Install it, clone my existing drive over to it, and move the SSD drive into my primary drive slot and put aside my old drive.
4) Buy a new SATA drive, as large as is compatible with my machine, and install it into the 2nd drive bay in the 40Y8725.
Questions are: does this make sense, any gotchas, and what are the largest drives I can use that work on my machine?
2nd order question: I'm hoping that if I use the 2nd drive for media, and aren't using it, it will spin down, so my battery life will be better than it was before (since I've replaced a running 160GB drive with a SSD + a spun down larger drive). Make sense? Also, if I just use it for streaming media, any value to 7200rpm or should I just stick with 5400rpm since it will probably use less power?
Thanks for any assistance, greatly appreciated!

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