ssd & hdd en ricoh

[anothertech]

Try turning off standby mode.

[rthonpm]

We're all for experimenting with new alternatives but when they don't work and they cause a machine fault you need to go back to what you know.
The machine does NOT support SSD so you just need to bite the bullet and fit a standard SATA HDD...you tried though...props for having a go.

There's probably no support for many of the firmware features that SSD's try to use to balance out writes and I/O with the operating system. You're not dealing with a full OS like Windows or *Nix. You're dealing with an embedded OS with a very small subset of features built expecting a specific set of hardware. Kudos for trying like Oze says, but you're trying to force the machine to use hardware that's likely trying to give it information that it can't understand and/or process.

Final thought: with the amount of writes that an MFP does for every job you're going to kill an SSD much faster than you would a standard HDD.