Lenovo ThinkPlus TP Drive adapter Ultrabay Slim-HDD 2,5 with T40

I am planning to buy Lenovo ThinkPlus TP Drive adapter Ultrabay Slim-HDD 2,5 for my refurbished T40. Are there any limitations for disk to be used with mentioned adapter ? e.g. Can I have 320 GB disk in this adatper ? I am asking because internaly I cannot have bigger disk then 80 GB (120 GB was not working)
Thanks
Jan

You must have been doing something wrong with that 120GB drive, because there's no reason for it not to work. These machines take 160GB with no problems...been there, done that.
Hope this helps.
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Welcome to the forum.
Unfortunately, the answer to your question is : No, it's not compatible.
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Is UltraBay Slim Blu Ray drive comming?

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I noticed that Lenovo has a ThinkPad Ultrabay Enhanced Blu-ray Burner, which is a 12.7mm part for the R61 series, so perhaps they will introduce a 9.5mm Ultrabay Slim part when they become more readily available.
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New Ultrabay Slim Optical Drive for T60

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Hello,
If I am reading the specs right, the following FRU's are compatible:
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Did someone check Parallel/Serial Ultrabay Slim Adapter for T61 on T400

Just a simple question. I need a serial adapter and the Parallel/Serial Ultrabay Slim Adapter is for me the best solution. If it really looks nice doesn't matter.
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Message Edited by Salzmilch on 05-19-2009 10:40 PM
Edit: Okay, it seems that Serial Ultra Bay has not the ports as the ultra bay from T6x series. But then is the question, does Lenovo plan to create also this Parallel/Serial Ultrabay Slim Adapter for T400 series?
Message Edited by Salzmilch on 05-19-2009 10:53 PM

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You need an Ultrabay Slim DVD drive. In US these are the alternatives.
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Do they still incorporate Ultrabay Slim?

Hi all.
I believe my T42 2378EXU (awesome machine) is about ready for the boneyard.
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Ultrabay?
No Ultrabay?
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your drive would only work in T61 and T60 machines, as from T400 they changed the connector type from PATA to SATA.
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ForksAndKnives wrote:
In response to the original post, I was also going to install the operating system on the mSATA drive but I'm not going to now because there was a post that I read that advised against it.
I can't find the post right now but I highly recommend you do some more research before going into it. Cheers
If you find that post, please post a link.
IIRC there was a thread/post advising to not use the caching SSD that shipped with these machines for the main OS drive.
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Ultrabase (42X4963) not compatible with ultrabay slim (42T2545)

Hi,
I have an ultrabase 42X4963 that is meant to be used with my X200.
From the MIGR-7029, clearly shows that 42T2545 is compatible with the ultrabase.
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no they are not compatible with each other. The ultrabase for the X200 is totally different to the one used in the X6x machines, the size are different too. The optical drive connector has changed from the PATA to SATA format.
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Is there a way to access my iTunes Library, which is stored on a (PC) External Hard Drive, on a MacBook Air (through an Apricorn Universal Hard Drive Adapter), without transferring the music files off of the external hard drive?

Is there a way to access my iTunes Library, which is stored on a (PC) External Hard Drive, on a MacBook Air (through an Apricorn Universal Hard Drive Adapter), without transferring the music files off of the external hard drive?
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You will have to engage a split library which means you will have to start answering questions on this forum because you will need to learn a lot about how iTunes works in order not that have a big mess at the end of it all. It also won't be easy when the time comes to relocate it all to different drives.
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Alright, I have a T510 with a single internal drive. I wish to add a SSD drive and make it my primary drive. I have an Ultrabay and know about the drive adapter for it and plan to use it as the new drive location.
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