t61p modular bay connector

Does anybody know what the connector is on the inside of the ultrabay? And I am curious about the extra hard drive module for the ultrabay. Will it be able to run at its full capacity or will it be limited the way external hard drives are via USB..?

Thanks

 

.......bump??

 

Limited how?

I had my 200GB SATA in the ultrabay briefly before I made it my main drive, worked like a champ. I will probably get another one before too long to put in an Ultrabay adapter permanently.

There are a number of connectors in there, depending on the type of device (battery, PATA, SATA, etc).... slide your CD/DVD out and take a peek

 

I have the T60p (waiting on my T61p) and have the sata hard drive caddy. It works very nicely, but consider it's SATA 150. If you want the full 3Gb bandwidth, you'll need to use an eSATA ExpressCard and enclosure.

The drive caddy is very convenient. It will use any 2.5" SATA drive. It doesn't have to have the wrapper IBM/Lenovo puts on the primary drive.

 

For what reason you would want that 300 MB/s? There is no harddrive what is that fast, exept for that 8 MB cache... wow

 

There's a significant difference in the I/O throughput when comparing the internal multibay drive, and a good external eSATA enclosure and drive. You'll really notice when run high I/O applications. Not to mention the external enclosures can handle a terabyte or more of data. Got a 1TB 2.5" laptop drive?

 

There's no "significant" difference in I/O throughput when comparing the ultrabay drive to eSATA enclosure+drive. Ultrabay SATA is just a run from the motherboard sata to the pinout in the ultrabay. It's recognized as an internal HDD, as if it was plugged directly into the motherboard.

 

Maby it could possibly run a RAID 0 set up?

 

Say again!!

 

Did you get yout T61p?


According to this information the T61p does SATA 300GB.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mobile/display/lenovo-thinkpad-t61_6.html