Any RealSSD 300 Users?

Bought a C300 256gb a few weeks ago and for the most part its been great. Obvioulsy not the dizzying heights of data transfer as an m4 or vertex 3. But was only half the cost, hence the purchase.

Running latest firmware on drive and m14x.

On standby the m14x powers down with lid closed as it should. 9 times out of ten it resumes, no worries there.

However......................

On two occasions now, I have plugged my tactx mouse into the high power left hand usb port while in standby. Now this might be totally unrelated but has the following effect.

Open laptop lid to resume as you would expect. No resume happens and C300 m14x seem to part company lol.

Black screen with flashing cursor, m14x reboots and after much deliberation proceeds with post, then detects no bootable device.

1st time this happened, it redetected the c300 after about 8 reboots. Yesterday zero, zilch, no detection. Funny enough I managed to get it redetected at some stage of the dell diagnostics, not at the start where it detects the hard drives,cables and opticals................right at the end.

All working again, no data loss but brown pants.................

 

Does it detect the drive in bios?

 

Not when it does it no.
Works fine 99% of the time. When it seems to throw a wobbly from standby, it wont detect it in bios at all.

Well not till multiple power cycles or this time the dell diags was used.

 

Wow that is definitely weird. I was having issues with my hard drive booting into windows, ended up being the motherboard so I had dell send me a new one that I installed myself. The thing is, mine showed up in bios all of the time. Only from standby? Or does it do it from a cold boot as well?

 

It is kinda odd I agree. It works perfect other than that. I can restart, cold boot exit from standy and all works great.

Just on two occasions. I remember it so well as been highly annoying but I seem to remember using the high power always on port. You see it sits on my table downstairs, use it in the living room on battery for surfing.

I close it up, put on the table and insert the charger, then plug in the tactx mouse.

Open lid, hey presto, no ssd. I'll try it again later on purpose. For now I've stopped standby and use shutdown on close lid if battery. If not nothing.

As I said I'm not 100% sure if that combination does it as only done it twice and vaguely remember plugging mouse into port.

 

just bumping this back up, cant believe noone else has a c300........

 

I've owned multiple C300s, never in my M14x, but I've never had a problem similar to that.

 

I'm having a similar problem. I have an HP Envy 14, and I just installed a Crucial M4 (updated to latest firmware 0009). Installed Windows from the HP Envy system recovery disks, and at the end of that process, it told me to remove the recovery disk and that it would reboot into Windows and proceed with installation of drivers etc. I pressed to proceed, and the machine rebooted. Then it gave me the message: "No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press key". I ran a hard disk test available from the boot menu, and it passed with no error messages of any kind. Now I have no idea what to do.