Thinkpads Forum

After receiving some valuable information from HarryC, I'm curious to know what people use their ultrabay for. Currently installed in my T60p is an under used CD/DVD drive. I may replace this with a Harddrive with XP or Linux, and replace the main drive with an installation of windows 7 (currently running XP).

I voted for DVD and Hard drive, because that's what I use it for most of the time. Thanks for mentioning me as a source of information, however I never mentioned a Numpad (you asked about this and I said to use USB), floppy drive, or work cradle. I am not aware of any of those devices working in an Ultrabay Slim bay for a T60 machine. I think Ultrabay 2000 was the last bay to support a floppy drive.

I was able to choose three different devices, depending on the model we're talking about. The A3x machines have floppy drives, all the rest have optical drives. I have one HDD adapter that I switch around between machines as needed.

Yes Harryc, you are indeed correct about the other optical devices not working in T60p. I was just curious to know what some of the members use an ultrabay for general.

Mine is uninhabited.

Interesting results so far. Harddrive and CD/DVD are the most popular, but it's interesting to see the floppy still in action.

Where's the option for Iomega Zip? I use that the most. It is something in-between hard disk and floppy diskette. And as far as I know, the Ultrabay Plus devices are very uncommon. I used the UBP numeric keypad in the past, though less often than I used Zip disks.