Lenovo ThinkPad UltraBay (Serial Ultrabay Enhanced) 

Thank you for your video there are so few videos about the t530 Lenovo.

You can install this thing into almost any computer featuring optical disk, even those with slot drives. No hot swap functionality usually though. Also blue stuff is the protective film that you are supposed to remove before use. Also prior to this you could use the bay for variety of things including LPT+COM on some models - T500/T400 IIRC, mentioned battery, even numpad on thirty something series and more.

Make sure you order one that's the right size! First one I ordered was 1mm too thick...😶

thanks for the video. i have a good condition T430 and an 'okay' condition T420s. the ultrabay adapters are also on eBay for similar prices (depending on which ultrabay form-factor you have). and of course all eBay sales are guaranteed/protected.

I have an ultrabay in my T420 and L440. So awesome to add an ssd.

don't forget about all the ultrabay battery options there have been over the years!

Hi quick question for you. If i take out the CD Drive and use the ultrabay to add a second SSD would i need to format the SSD to use or would i be able to use it as storage as soon as i insert it in the bay.

Speaking of ultrabay caddys i need to get one for my t510(already have one for the t430).

Any idea if the ultrabay battery will work with the x220 using the ultrabase 3 dock?

What else can you add to that ultrabay? Another battery perhaps?

PLEASE peel off the blue protective foil :O

Great useful content. I’m upgrading my W530 500gb hard drive. Keep hacking!

Screw an external drive... I'd sooner keep my ultra-bays internal option in my laptop bag. I have the HDD adapter for the T-420, though I do not use it. I have a SATA III 240GB in my main HDD bay on SIII, and a SIII on SII in the WWAN slot (also 240GB). Then they run in RAID as to combine storage space and speed... Combining the space for convenience, and speed to make up for (though it's hardly needed) the SIII on SII situation. I don't mind the idea of keeping a drive in the ultra-bay, but I usually just use drives that way via eSata... as it's powered and the same speeds as internal for the most part. Less to do vs that of swapping out the Ubay. Now, with that said... I envy the ThinkPad models that have Ultra-bay GPU options, which vent right out the side. They are absolutely brilliant. I mean, MXM is one thing. But that has to mate up to a systems cooling, rendering some upgrades impossible. Even when white-lists aren't present... But with an ultra-bay option, you can just pop a GPU in like a damn CD drive, or SSD. I mean. That should be a standard. Just something that gains ubiquity all around. But of course, as it makes perfect sense, it will NEVER happen. It will stick to one tiny line of one tiny line of one manufacturers product. ehhhhhh.

There are two version 9mm thick and 12.7mm thick. Which is for ThinkPad T430?

Cannot find a single hard drive adapter for a T61. Whyyyyyy

I bought a 2nd hard drive caddy for my t510, now I'm thinking if I could house the dvd multi burner into the generic chinese enclosures for 12.7mm SATA laptop drives?

Bro, hi. Tell me how to activate this feature so that the second ssd or DVD drive is displayed in the tray, just like yours. I don't have this on my T430 yet

Is this SATA2 or 3?