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    Second Harddrive Issues

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by seanowns, Jan 21, 2012.

  1. seanowns

    seanowns Notebook Geek

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    I have two SSDs. (Intel and Crucial)

    If I do not use the second hard drive within say the first 10 minutes of a boot up, it will no longer be available (disconnected).

    Anyone know of an easy fix for this or could it be related to my HD Caddy in some way?

    Thanks!
     
    seanowns, Jan 21, 2012
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  2. Anthony@MALIBAL

    Anthony@MALIBAL Company Representative

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    A bunch of questions to start with:

    Which laptop model do you have?
    How are your drives installed?
    Is it SSD + SSD in optical bay?
    Do you have the latest firmware on both of them?
     
    Anthony@MALIBAL, Jan 21, 2012
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  3. seanowns

    seanowns Notebook Geek

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    Both SSDs. Crucial C300 and Intel 320.
    The Intel is in the main drive, C300 in the optical bay with HD Caddie.

    I updated the c300 to the latest firmware and it was my main (and only) hard drive until last month when I got the Intel 320. It worked fine.

    Intel 320 is the current primary drive. It seems to be working fine.


    The only real issue is this second hard drive not being recognized much of the time even though i know the SSD is fine...

    Edit: Also, I have one of the $12.00 hd caddies on Ebay.
     
    seanowns, Jan 22, 2012
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  4. Anthony@MALIBAL

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    If you flip the drives around, do you still have random disconnection issues with the secondary drive? If that's the case, then I'd agree that it has something to do with the caddy connection. If it no longer has any issues, then I'd guess it's the SSD having problems.
     
    Anthony@MALIBAL, Jan 22, 2012
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    seanowns Notebook Geek

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    I will try that. Thank you for the comments.
     
    seanowns, Jan 22, 2012
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