T420 Hard Drive caddy info wanted

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T420 Hard Drive caddy info wanted

#1 Post by Widows Son » Tue Aug 19, 2014 7:54 pm

Greetings.

I am looking to use a hard drive caddy in my T420 that will fit in the DVD drive bay; the one I use in my X200 is too thin.

Can someone please verify what the actual height should be; I am seeing 9.5mm, but 12mm as well.

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Re: T420 Hard Drive caddy info wanted

#2 Post by ZaZ » Wed Aug 20, 2014 3:12 am

The X200 Ultrabase, if that's what you're referring to, uses a 9.5mm optical drive, so it needs a 9.5mm modular caddy. The part number for the Ultrabase caddy is 43R1980.

With the T420, Lenovo switched to a 12.7mm optical drive that most notebooks use. As far as I know, the slimmer X200 modular caddy should work in the T420, though there will be a gap between the top of the caddy and the bottom of the bay. The T420 caddy will not work in the X200 Ultrabase as it's too tall.
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Re: T420 Hard Drive caddy info wanted

#3 Post by Widows Son » Wed Aug 20, 2014 6:37 am

ZaZ wrote:With the T420, Lenovo switched to a 12.7mm optical drive that most notebooks use.

Greetings ZaZ, so the T420 uses the 12.7mm then; interesting that I am seeing so many 9.5mm; perhaps they are referring to the HDD drive height itself.

Thank you for your reply


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