I use a Lenovo G510, with a samsung SSD as my "C" drive. Recently I decided it was time to install 2.5" storage drive using a caddy in the optical bay. I bought a caddy off amazon and a Hitachi Travelstar 7k1000, which was appealing as a 7200rpm drive with a large cache. After installing everything and formatting the drive, it seemed to work perfectly, and I copied all my data to the drive. Then, after two days, I started having problems. Either: a) 95% of the time, the laptop starts up and the drive is not detected. (Doesn't even appear in the device manager.) OR b) The drive is detected but my Intel Rapid Storage program tells me that it's detecting SMART errors in the drive, and allows me the option to "suppress" (ignore) the errors, and I can continue using the drive until it does the same thing 10 minutes later. (The drive is not faulty, it works perfect via the USB attachment, and has "good health" according to HD tune and CrystalDisk.)
I sent the caddy back to amazon and bought one specifically for the Lenovo G510 from HDDcaddy.com, but same thing happened. Strangely, the drive and caddy combination works when I take the caddy out and use a USB--> Caddy adapter I bought with the intention of using with the removed optical drive.
I've tried booting from my SSD using the caddy. I've tried starting with the little switch in the caddy in each position. (SATA 1, 2, 3?) I've tried updating the BIOS and sata drivers.
This is supposed to be much easier...what's going on here?
There might not be anything as far as firm ware for the HDD. Can you boot from the drive in the caddy? What if you put the ssd in the caddy and the hdd in the laptop?
You might need to make a change in the bios to boot from the expansion bay. Seems to me you should be able to.
The firmware version number is usually printed on the top of the drive check that against the version that program you found is going to flash the drive with before you do it.
Well I can select the caddy-SSD in the boot menu but it says "error reading from disk" or something like that and won't even initialize the boot. If I boot from the SSD in the caddy using the USB adapter it goes to the "starting windows" screen and then bluescreens.
And it turns out that the firmware update is for the 7k1000.C and not the 7k1000, which is the "deskstar" and not the "travelstar" drive.
Yea windows doesn't like to boot from USB drives like that.(for some reason that's a thing.) Let me think on this a bit more when I'm not so tired maybe i will l come up with another idea.
I think this particular hard drive, if not all 7200rpm hard drives, don't like to be used in a caddy. The other day I popped a friend's 5400rpm drive in the caddy - it was even one of these SSD cache drives - and it all worked right away. Dunno if another 7200rpm drive will work but this one definitely doesn't.
Has anyone got any newsy about this problem? I am facing exactly this same situation. I have Win 10, and I got my 7200 1TB Hitachi drive in HDD CADDY (ICY BOX), and I am not able to see it in BIOS nor in Windows. I have tried running BIOS with AHCI and the other one, and still this same problem. Can anyone please help me with it?
Hey there Pawel, sorry I never answered my own question.
In the end I just got a 5200 drive and it worked right away with no problems. I guess the caddy or the bios just doesn't like 7200rpm drives? Sorry man, I wish I could give you a better solution but I couldn't work one out myself. :-/
Ive had the same problem. 7200rpm drive on a caddy. Reqd speeds are fine. But write speed is like 1mbps. I guess it’s power restriction. I put a 5400rpm drive and it worked fine. Read and write speeds within the specs. So my advise is if anyone wanna try using a caddy, just make sure you dont put 7200rpm drives or you might have some weird problems
