T410 fails to wake from sleep with 2nd Hard drive installed?

Ever since I've installed a second hard drive in my T410, a Hitachi 250GB drive, my machine fails to wake from sleep (sometimes)... Then I have to do a hard reset.
I had the same problem without the 2nd drive when I tried to use the HD Password in the BIOS and found out that it was something to do with the Crucial M4 drive I'm using. But this same problem is now happening ever since using the 2nd drive slot.
Any ideas? I really like the extra storage space and don't want to remove it based on this problem.
T410(2537) -- i7 620M - Intel HD GPU (1440 x 900) - 8GB RAM - 128GB Crucial M4 SSD - 250GB Hitachi HDD - Windows 7 & 8 Pro
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Well it seems the problem was caused by the firmware version for the SSD I've installed.
The problem was resolved by updating the Crucial M4 SSD with the latest firmware.....
......and It solved the HD1 password issue too.
T410(2537) -- i7 620M - Intel HD GPU (1440 x 900) - 8GB RAM - 128GB Crucial M4 SSD - 250GB Hitachi HDD - Windows 7 & 8 Pro

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