psychopomp1 Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 Hi A few weeks ago i purchased a 480GB version of the Corsair Neutron GTX SSD for my Lenovo Thinkpad X220 notebook. My X220 already had a 7mm 256gb SSD (different brand) which i had no issues with but wanted higher capacity. The Neutron GTX works fine most of the time but every few days i get a black screen with "2100: Detection Error on HDD0 (Main HDD)" message. If i remove/re-insert the battery the notebook boots up normally and works fine...until a few days later when this problem occurs again. I am using the thinkpad in AHCI mode, all drivers are up to date, i have formatted the SSD and re-installed Win 7, i have disconnected and reconnected the SSD but this problem still occurs. Does this mean the SSD is faulty and should be RMA'd? Just to re-iterate: this issue did NOT exist with my previous non-Corsair SSD. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Latest BIOS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psychopomp1 Posted February 3, 2013 Author Share Posted February 3, 2013 yep, using latest BIOS and all hardware drivers/firmware up to date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 Plug the drive into a different computer and see if it works fine or it is faulty. Also contact Lenovo and ask if they are aware of the problem with the SSD and the laptop's chipset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psychopomp1 Posted February 5, 2013 Author Share Posted February 5, 2013 Thanks Toasted, will try the SSD in my desktop pc to see if the issue is replicated. I don't think Lenovo support will be able to help as the Neutron GTX is a non-OEM disk; my thinkpad originally came with a 7200rpm hard disk which i no longer have. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psychopomp1 Posted February 10, 2013 Author Share Posted February 10, 2013 I think i've managed to pinpoint the cause of the detection error...it was the Intel Proset software for my Intel N6300 wifi card which i downloaded/installed through Lenovo update. I uninstalled this, then installed the wireless driver only for my card through Intel's website and surprise surprise i no longer get the 2100:detection error. So it appears there was nothing wrong with the Neutron GTX after all :) One question re: the size of the 480GB Neutron GTX: i read somewhere that the true size of this SSD is 512gb but the 32gb is used for the disk's "internal operations" so the user only has 480gb or so to use. Does this mean that over-provisioning is already built-in and you don't need to keep aside the 10% recommended for OP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Technobeard Posted February 11, 2013 Administrators Share Posted February 11, 2013 Yes, it is already over provisioned. We've only recently started to sell drives that aren't over provisioned: http://www.corsair.com/us/blog/corsair-ssds-with-zero-overprovisioning-space/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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