[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: laptop module hard drive

[Thomas Cameron]

Fred James wrote:
> Thomas Cameron
> The modular bay hard drive - is it a standard type, such as a laptop 
> IDE?  In other words, is the modular bay enclosure is made for a 
> specific model or brand or series of laptop(s)?  Can the drive be 
> removed from the enclosure and used elsewhere, or it a sort of 
> integrated kind of thing?  Is the arrangement like cable select, or do 
> jumpers have to be set for master/slave?  Thank you in advance for any 
> help you may be able to offer.

I use a Lenovo Thinkpad T60 with one of these:

http://www.provantage.com/lenovo-40y8725~7LENO045.htm

My 'top uses SATA, so I can use the drive in any other machine which has
a SATA port.  The bay is not interchangeable except with some other
Thinkpads, but removing the drive from the tray is easy.

Thomas