T530 drive bay questions

I friend of mine just upgraded his old laptop from standard HDD to SSD drive and I was super impressed by the load time going from about 60 seconds to 10. So I'm planning for an eventual upgrade for my T530 to do the same maybe a few months from now.
I believe the T530 is Sata III and the Crucial site says the m4 256GB drive with 6Gb speed is compatible, so I think that would fit the bill perfectly.
Since I do not currently have the laptop with me right now, I'm trying to read spec docs and getting a bit confused. Does the T530 have two drive bays? I think yes, one regular and one Ultrabay. If so, are they both capable of the same speed? I would think yes.
If so, I was thinking I would upgrade to the m4 SSD for the primary drive and utilize the 7200rpm factory drive in the Ultrabay slot or would that not be possible? If that is possible, would having the two drives in there result in a noticable decrease in battery life?
If that is not possible, my plan would be to just install the SSD as the primary and put the existing 7200rpm drive into an external enclosure and utilize it for backups or data storage. I'll need to figure out the best way to get the OS transferred between drives, but I've read a few posts on that here, so seems doable.
Thanks ahead of time for any info.

dudeman135 wrote:
Edit: Actually looking at the link on ebay from above, that adapter says Sata II. I will search a bit and see if I find anything about a similar Sata III adapter while I wait for more responses.
The official Lenovo description of the ThinkPad Serial ATA Hard Drive Bay Adapter III (FRU 43N3412 for 9.5mm and 0A65623 for 12.7mm) doesn't indicate what SATA version it supports either. All it says is that it supports HDs and SSDs. (The info for the new 12.7mm FRU comes from marketing materials that were published when the Tx30 series was launched.)
In any case, standard usage would have the SSD as the primary device in the main HD/SSD bay and the original HD in the UltraBay adapter. The SSD would run the OS and main applications using SATA-III. Presumably the HD would be used for less speed critical stuff like large data store and backups so whether it can handle SATA-III data transfer speeds is probably not particularly important. Even SATA-II is far faster than USB 2.0 and probably also faster than USB 3.0 so the UltraBay should be both faster and better integrated than an external USB enclosure.
P.S. Anyone know if there's an external enclosure for the DVD drive that came out of the UltraBay? I'd rather have my HD in the UltraBay and be able to USB connect the DVD drive if, as and when (rarely) I should need it.
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