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I just ordered my T60p widescreen and ordered along with it an HD ultra bay adaptor. I was reading on the forum about how to install a retail HD and was wondering if this is still necessary on the t60p and if so which harddrive would you recommend? My only requirements are that it be 7200rpm and over 60GBs.

More to come from this anxious Thinkpad first timer.

Grand_Agent wrote:... was wondering if this is still necessary on the t60p

By "this", what are you referring to? Retail HD?

Umm...of course you're going to have to install a hdd. I guess I'm somewhat confused, as it only makes sense that you have to put it in the ultrabay...

At any rate, I bought a 100gb 7200rpm SATA drive from Brent Presley here on the forums for my secondary drive.

I might end up looking into getting another drive with higher capacity, as I just use it for bulk storage, and put the 100gb 7200rpm into my Dell.


Seagate and Hitachi will have what you want. Good luck finding a 160gb 7200rpm - they're out there, but not on any retail sites.

Wow! I should proof read these before posting.

I was reading that I had to flash the firmware on a retail HD to get it to work properly in the ultra bay. I was wondering if that was still necessary? Also what HD give the best results in a ThinkPad, once again my only requirements are it being 7200rpm and over 60GBs

The firmware headaches only apply to T43. You shouldn't need to flash any firmware to get hdd working with T60.

sugo wrote:The firmware headaches only apply to T43. You shouldn't need to flash any firmware to get hdd working with T60.

I'm pretty sure this was mainly related to the primary drive, rather than the ultrabay.

I know I had foreign drives (non-IBM, and way too old) in my ultrabay without issue.