Suggested Ultrabay Hard Drives?

Greetings,
I'm about to get a T410 from work, replacing a Z61t. I'd like to put a second bootable drive in the UltraBay running Win7 as a test partition ... am I correct in that I need the following parts?
ThinkPad Serial Hard Drive Bay Adapter III (part 43N3412, http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:item.detail?GroupID=38&Code=43N3412&current-category-id=6D8E5191FB0B45CBB39F45EB5B2B986E&&hide_menu_area=yes)
Any SATA drive that fits (e.g., http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:item.detail?GroupID=38&Code=43N3411&current-category-id=30DCE24D4AD945988722793CBEEC65B3&&hide_menu_area=yes)
Any suggestions as to specific drive models would be appreciated - I'm having a bit of trouble validating the size of the drive that needs to fit into this adapter, as I'd like to shop around for prices rather than just defaulting to getting something direct from Lenovo.
Presumably the Ultrabay HD adapter I have from a Thinkpad Z61t wouldn't work? Don't believe it can support SATA.
Thanks in advance.

any 2.5 inch SATA Hdd with 9.5 mm thickness should be okay. the Z61t ultrabay uses a PATA connecting interface to the laptop, while the T400 and later uses a SATA connection, so they are not intercompatible as such.
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Jin Li
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