ThinkPad Ultrabay Adapter

Can anyone tell me if the Ultrabay adapter for the W530 comes with a tray and rubber rails for future HDD installation? Or do I have to purchase those items separately from a retailer like Newmodeus such as this?
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Ultra cheap ultrabay adapter

So after installing my SSD I wanted to use my stock 500GB 7200 RPM drive as a data / backup drive. Well, funds were limited after buying my Thinkpad T430 and a Samsung 830 256GB lol so I was on the hunt for a deal.
I think Lenovo charges 59.99 for the ultrabay hard drive adapter...Did some research and found this
http://www.ebay.com/itm/300598752756?ru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_sacat%3D0%26_nkw...
10 bucks, not bad, said it was for a T420 but according to Lenovos website the T420 and T430 use the same ultrabay adapter - I ordered it and it came today, installed the hard drive and it went in the adapter with no problems. Then put the ultrabay adapter in the laptop - went right in and fits perfectly with no gaps and has a really cool blue light. I think the one I have is only 3gbps but running the stock platter drive it doesn't really matter.
Anyone looking for an ultrabay adapter check out the seller on ebay that has these. I am a very happy customer especially for 10 bucks

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Ultrabay adapter - HDD doesn't show up

I just bought a new ultrabay adapter for my Thinkpad T400. I put a brand new Toshiba 320GB HDD in it and place into the laptop. The HDD is from another laptop but is still brand new, I bought it from my mate who installed a SSD in his newly bought laptop.
Anyways, when I placed the ultrabay adapter in the laptop with the new HDD I got a message that Windows 7 was installing drivers for the new Toshiba drive, standard procedure. But I don't see anything in My Computer.
The HDD shows up in Device Manager but not in My Computer. See screenshot.
I tried following these instructions with no luck. I also tried updating the BIOS with no luck.
The light on the adapter doesn't turn on - perhaps it's somehow switched off?
Please help...
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Nevermind. I solved the problem. I used Partition Wizard Home Edition to see the disk and created a new NTFS partition on the HDD and assigned a drive letter to it.
Figured I would post the solution here if someone would experience a similar problem.

Z60m Ultrabay Adapter for HDD

Hello all,
i'm looking for an Ultrabay adapter for HDD to extend my Z60m-system.
At the lenovo-website, I found an adapter that sould, according to the description, fit into my system.
Ultrabay Adapter
Has anyone experience with this model?
My second question is: What is the maximum HDD-size (GB) that can I use there?
In the specifications of the Z60-models, I found the information, that the system is limited to a maximum HDD-capacity of 100GB, or did I misunderstand that?
Hard drive features:
Standard 40GB, 60GB, 80GB, or 100GB hard drive sizes
Specifications Z60
Do I have to consider this restriction at the "primary HDD-Slot" AND the Ultrabay-HDD-Slot ?
Thank you.
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the Z60 uses SATA hdd, so anything in 2.5 inch and 9.5 mm thickness format is okay, currently 640 gig is the largest.
Lenovo's figure are based on the largest hdd that was available when they released the machine, they don't update these value when new parts come out.
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W520 - installing a 7mm SSD in ultrabay adapter?

I've bought a 9.5mm Crucial m4 256GB SSD for my W520 for some time and now I'd like to get a Samsung 840 Pro 256GB SSD (http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Electronics-2-5-Inch-Solid-MZ-7PD256BW/dp/B009NB8WRU/), which has a height of 7mm.
I've got an Ultrabay adapter and I've been using my original 320GB WD3200BEKT with this adapter and everything seems to be fine. But that drive is 9.5mm in height as well. Now my question is, could I install a 7mm SSD into this adapter?
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12.7mm Ultrabay adapter

So I bought a W530 with the 320GB HDD, and I have the 12.7mm Ultrabay adapter for another hard drive I'm going to install. I'd like to place the other hard drive, an Intel SSD, into the main drive slot, with the HDD in the Ultrabay adapter. I'm not sure what I need - do I just need the 9mm rails for the Intel drive, or do I also need a caddy for the HDD?

aangrist:
What is the size of the HDD, 7mm or 9.5? If it's the 7mm you will need the adaptor rails in order for it to fit properly.
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T43 - ultrabay adapter not detecting drive

I just bought an after market Ultrabay Adapter off ebay for the SATA drive I recently bought. However, when I plugged in the adapter into the cd-rom slot Windows does not detect as a drive. It shows up as new hardware detected, but that's it. What can i do to make the drive detectable in MyComputer ( or how do I access it) ?

Does it show up in disk management? Perhaps it needs to be formatted, or is the drive already formatted?
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T530 ultrabay adapter does't work

Hello, Who can explain me why not work an Ultrabay SATA hard drive adapter in a T530. Isn't from Lenovo but it works perfectly in any notebook and only the T530 does't work. It's like the device does not exist for T530. Is there any special configuration of the adapter ? A "device present" pinout conf ? Thanks

The T530 should use the same UB Adapter (III) as the others in the T500 series. It is distinguished by a plastic stub protruding from the rear of the adapter. This stub is what engages the push mechanism that ejects the adapter.
There was a recent new version of the adapter for the T500 series which is slightly thicker at the opening, and eliminates the air gap.
The Lenovo Ultrabay Adapter is unique to Lenovo, and is mated to the twp finger slide and push mechanism. I can't imagine it working in other brand laptops.

IDE/PATA HDD UltraBay adapter for T61?

What is the part number for the UltraBay adapter that fits the T61 and accepts IDE/PATA hard disks?

the Z60 uses SATA hdd, so anything in 2.5 inch and 9.5 mm thickness format is okay, currently 640 gig is the largest.
Lenovo's figure are based on the largest hdd that was available when they released the machine, they don't update these value when new parts come out.
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T61 and SATA Ultrabay adapter

Over the course of several months and with different versions of Windows, I've tried to get my T61 (8891) to work properly with the SATA Ultrabay adapter.
With some SATA drives, it seems to _almost_ work - it will be recognized properly and even read the file system, but there is still enough of a glitch that files get corrupted.
On my most recent attempt and with most previous attempts, the Ultrabay and main HDD LEDs just light up solid and the drive in the Ultrabay is never recognized at all. My most recent try was with a Seagate ST9500420ASG. I did try limiting the speed to 1.5 using a jumper on the drive, but that didn't make any difference.
I am able to use PATA drives in the PATA Ultrabay adapter just fine - no problems at all.
This is a pretty big limitation, though, because all the new faster and higher capacity drives are SATA in addition to all SSDs being SATA.
Has anyone else had a similar problem? Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
Michael

Kevin,
Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately I've tried several times with drives formatted or cloned first in USB enclosures, but none of them have worked properly.
Some drives do seem to work better than others. I have had marginal success with a couple of drives in that it will read the file system and the Ultrabay drive access light doesn't stay on constantly. However, there still seems to be an issue with even these drives.
For most drives I've tried, the drive is not recognized at all and / or the Ultrabay HDD access LED lights up constantly, which can't be good.
It appears that Lenovo has sold promoted and sold hardware that is not actually compatible, at least with some T61s. It is listed as compatible with my T61 (8891-CTO), but has never worked properly. I even ordered and tried another Ultrabay SATA adapter thinking something might be wrong with that particular adapter, but neither one works properly.
Thanks,
Michael

EBay Ultrabay adapter reporting SATA I with OEM Seagate 500gig HDD installed

I purchased -THIS- recently and when I installed it along with the OEM 500GB Seagate HDD (which is SATA II), RST is only reporting it as operating at SATA I (1.5 Gb/sec). I then removed the HDD from the adapter and put it back into the main spot and RST then correctly reported it as a SATA II drive.
Have any of you come across this when using similar eBay Ultrabay adapters? I am thinking about trying another one on eBay, but don't know if I want to take the chance or not. Has anybody purchased a Ultrabay adapter off of eBay and having it report the correct SATA interface for an OEM SATA II HDD?
BTW, I have a W520
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I'd like to confirm JRHawk9's comments. The HDD in the internal bay reports SATA-300/Sata 2, but in the UltraBay reports SATA-150/Sata 1. This is wrong. Bottom line, if I put a SATA 2 device into a SATA 3 connector, it should be reported as a SATA 2 device.
I have also conducted some performance benchmarks against the HDD in both locations. For large file transfers, the speeds are the same. However, for small file I/O (clearly the norm for most computers), the HDD on a SATA 2 connector (the internal HDD bay in this case), was between 5 - 30% faster.
While neither bay saturated the SATA 1 spec, clearly the HDD properly detected as a SATA 2 device allowed it to perform more small file I/O.
What's wrong here? Why doesn't the Lenovo W520 properly detect the OEM Seagate 500GB drive as SATA 2? BTW, I've contacted Seagate; they tell me it's Lenovo's fault. With the evidence provided here, I have to agree.

Is there really a gap if I purchase and swap the CD-ROM with Ultrabay Adapter III (43N3412)?

Hi all,
I want to install a SSD with ultrabay adapter on my w510. But I saw on the forum some people mentioned that there will be a gap if I do so, can anyone tell me if it is true?
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Yes, it's true, if you buy the adapter from Lenovo as I did for my W520. There are vendors on eBay who claim to have gapless (12.7mm) ultrabay adapters. Some are very cheap. One claims to be selling an actual Lenovo part (but if so, why isn't Lenovo?). I put some pictures up here.

Choosing hard drives... 320 gb internal, ultrabay adapter, or 1tb external?

Hello I'm between that options, my questions are about performance. I have a t61p 6460 d8g. that comes with Hitachi 160 gb sata 1 7200 RPM.
1-The Seagate Momentus 7200.3 SATA 3Gb/s 320-GB Hard Drive may improve the laptop performance, it can be faster plus having more storage?
2-I read both 40Y8725 ultrabay adaptor works and doesn't fit in the t61p, who can confirm that? I already have two external hdd 160 and 80 gb... can be nice to use them in the ultrabay.
3-may be is better to keep my hdd and get an external
Barracuda ES.2 SATA 3.0-Gb/s 1-TB Hard Drive but I guess even if the drive is faster the real speed will be slower because it is external
cheers
Just for curiosity... including vista, how much storage do you use for the program files? I have like 80 gb just for the programs is that too much?
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I think that import the adapter would be more expensive than getting a 320 gb, considering that the adapter is going to be in a slower interface.
At other side it can be great to have 2nd hdd so may it can startup with another OS.
And about the hdd performance, there's some points a don't get, here are the datasheets
http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/datasheet/disc/ds_momentus_7200_3.pdf
http://www.hitachigst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/techdocs/A198FEF5A3B22F08862572D400656432/$file/7K200DS.p...
I guess the many / in the measures correspond to the different models in the Hitachi my one should be the second model.
The data transfer info is given in a different way I don't know how I should compare them...
And the reading time that is 10 ms in the Hitachi I found another place that says that is 11 ms for the Seagate.

How to hold the HDD more secure in Ultrabay HDD Adapter

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One of the things I like most about my ThinkPad is the Ultrabay. The Ultrabay is by default occupied by the optical drive, but the optical drive can be removed and replaced with a hard drive adapter, a battery, or a serial/parallel port adapter. But the question seems alway exist, since ultrabay hdd adapter is fit to more than one models. When I insert the ultrabay adapter in my R400, i found that there is some space between the ultrabay and the computer. This is annoying because you have to worry about the dust. But the most serious problem is, the ultrabay HDD adapter could not hold the HDD securely!! Like the photo i show above, the adapter and the HDD is only connected and hold by the junction!So if you subject the adapter to a lot of movement, the drive connector can easily get damaged. Is there any solution to help?
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Hi, the Ultrabay HDD Adapter is designed for Lenovo's own hard disks that come w a little metal "caddie" mounted around the hard disk with four screws. That's why the adapter is slightly too large. Unfortunately Lenovo doesn't make the caddie available as a spare part for use with non-Lenovo disks. In this thread a US vendor is listed selling the caddies and my positive experience with it.
Of course the caddies being manufactured in US make them unnecessarily expensive. It would be great if you could find a vendor selling these caddies located in your geography at a more competitive price. Please make sure to post your experiences here if you manage to find one.
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ThinkPad SATA HD rive Bay Adapter III

i have ordered T410S and i have my own X25-M 160G SSD. i intend to buy a Bay Adapter III and sub it in optical drive place with SSD. my question is: does this adapter support X25-M 160G SSD? cuz the website says it just supports thinkpad hard disk. THX

you would need to get a 1.8 inch to 2.5 inch caddy inorder to use the SSD in that ultrabay adapter.
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