Ultrabay Slim HDD 41U3148

[BuddyWill]

Does anyone know the Ultrabay Slim HDD adapter fits the 'Advanced Ultrabay' found on the Z60 series?

[BuddyWill]

found my own answer:

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/UltraBay

thanks though!

[rkawakami]

That's what I posted a few minutes ago but when I researched some more this is what I found:

The tabook.pdf says that the Z60m uses the 40Y8725 Serial ATA hard drive adapter. The 41U3148 appears to be a Parallel ATA adapter.

[BuddyWill]

wow, I almost made the purchase too! How disappointing! Thanks for the heads up.

what am I to do w my old 70gb 5400rpm drive? The HDD adapter would have worked great for me.

[rkawakami]

Sorry, but I don't know enough about the Z series to say that you could plug in a PATA Ultrabay adapter. The documentation from IBM/Lenovo says that the 40Y8725 can be used. That may not preclude the use of the 41U3148 adapter. Perhaps someone with personal experience will be along in a little while to set us both straight .

[bontistic]

My personal experience.

I used a PATA adapter 62P4553 worked with no problems on a z60t. I have also been using this on a T60p R52 and X60s, not to mention the T4x series, works well.

If my adapter is the same with the 41U3148 then it should work as well. I think the you can use the same principle as with optical drives, as long as the connector is the same for the ultrabay, it should work.

[andyP]

The 41U3148 will work with P-ATA drives in all *6 series - no probs.

[BuddyWill]

I read through rkawakami's reply too quick and missed the 40Y8725 model HDD adapter which works w the SATA drives. ordered one and anxiously await for it to arrive. muhaha.