rkawakami wrote:The picture shows that the hard drive has a standard HD caddy attached. I do not believe that your Ultrabay Slim adapter kit will come with one. It's assumed that you already have one installed on the drive that's going to be put inside the Ultrabay adapter. The screws which mount the disk drive to the caddy are actually used to hold the drive down inside the Ultrabay 2nd HD adapter. You can physically install the hard drive inside the Ultrabay adapter without using any screws or HD caddy but there's a potential problem with shorting out the drive electronics due to the metal bottom of the Ultrabay 2nd HD adapter and it might flop around a little bit since it's not secured in the normal manner.
That said, I've installed plenty of hard drives into Ultrabay adapters without using any screws or HD caddies. I line the bottom of the Ultrabay adapter with a sheet of plastic (to prevent shorts) and am very careful when handling the adapter; basically, not turning it upside down.
Just this week some events made me reevaluate how I was using the adapter. I put a Hitachi drive from my X32 into the adapter, and started getting drive fault errors and a siren-like whine from the drive. Your post pointed out that I needed some insulation ... and it just so happens my IT Help Desk at work as emptying a closet and I got a nylon "sleeve" thingie that fits a laptop drive perfectly. Drive works happily now.
No screws though. Since at minimum only 2 are needed, I borrowed 2 from the T43's internal drive (once in the primary HDD bay, the caddy is secure), and voila, the little side mount screws fit under the tabs which I'd never noted before, keeping the drive from pivoting up.
I'm disappointed that the manual makes no mention of this.
So ... I wonder where I get a spare caddy and 4 screws? They don't come from the third party HDD vendors....