Drive specifications for 600e ultraslimbay installation?

[glance]

I have a 600E 2645-4AU and I am looking to install a second hard drive using the UltraSlimBay HDD Adapter. I have been looking at drives available online, and am now not sure what specifications are critical to making sure that the drive I buy will be compatible.

I am thinking it needs to be an EIDE/ATA-4 drive, with a height of 2.5" (12.7mm) or less.

Is there anything else I need to make sure the drive has or complies with before I choose it?

Also, if there are strong recommendations for or against a particular brand of drive, I would welcome such feedback.

Thank you for your help.

[Laptop_wizard]

Go to ebay, If it says 600E in the discription buy it, I have the EXACT same model you do, You don'y kneed anything E.X.A.C.T, the item will say
"600 600E 600X ultra-slim Second HDD adapter" Buy it, you'll be ok.
trust me, I'v baught tons of crpa for My Thinkpad

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I am thinking it needs to be an EIDE/ATA-4 drive, with a height of 2.5" (12.7mm) or less.

Yes. Any 2.5" (wide) notebook drive with a height of 12.5mm/12.7mm or 9.5mm should work just fine.

Is there anything else I need to make sure the drive has or complies with before I choose it?

Not that I can think of -- as far as compatibility issues go. If you do not have the latest BIOS, then you may have to upgrade it depending on what drive size you get, I don't know.

You will want to get a 600 series hard drive "caddy" for the new drive, even if you are just putting it in the Second HDD Adapter and never plan on actually putting it into the hard drive slot of your 600. The drive will fit in the adapter without the caddy, but the caddy helps ensure that the top of the drive doesn't catch on something when you insert or remove it from the UltraSlim Bay. You could probably get around this with a simple piece of tape or something, but I would recommend getting the caddy. It also seems possible to me that without the caddy you might put a very small, constant, and unneccessary stress on the pins of the hard drive itself since they do not line up perfectly with the Second HDD adapter plug unless the hard drive caddy is attached to the drive.

I don't have any recommendation or cautions regarding drive manufacturers or specific models.

Phil.