3820TG: SSD causes windows 7 to freeze often

So I wouldn't start a thread on this except I am leaving the country tomorrow for a year and need to straighten this out before I go. I purchased the 3820TG from PCHome (you guys rock, thanks!) and picked up the great deal on a corsair 128 gig SSD drive.

Once everything was installed I noticed that my computer froze, without error, on heavy drive usage. I am now using the default 500gb drive for my (last) day so I can confirm but it would seem that the SSD was causing my computer to freeze whenever I did big file transfers.

My confirmation of this, using only the SSD, was copying the WoW installation folder from a flash drive onto the laptop. Windows froze every time (there is no bluescreen: the computer just freezes and I can't move the mouse). AHCI is enabled and so is trim. I have the latest firmware for the drive (19161 I believe it is? I checked, it was the latest).

Any suggestions on what to try? I will be able to confirm that it is indeed the drive later, once I try to copy the same files over in the morning. I really want to keep the SSD because it is so much faster -and quieter- than the 500gb 5400rpm drive the computer shipped with. Unfortunately I don't have time for an RMA so I will have to return the drive tomorrow if I can't repair it. Please help me keep this awesome drive

 

SSD are known to freeze up on heavy drive usage, does it only freeze up on large file transfering? or when you are gaming for example also?

 

seems to freeze under continuous usage. For example I copied some songs off of my home serve over wireless G... about 3.5 megabytes a second. This froze it on occasion. When I split the files up though it didn't seem to freeze.

I didn't try splitting up the wow installation files because I just then realized that I was having a drive problem, something I can't really live with. I can't accept constant freezing like that. Any common solutions you know of?

So yeah, freezes under heavy usage (drive wise.... prime95 chugged along happily until my battery died) but also occasionally under light usage.

 

hmm seems like you are having issues when its writing onto the drive. I think you should search up your drive and contact consair support, btw what drive you are using? P128 V128 or S128??? people do have problems with the P series and systems freezing

 

Mine is a CT128M225.SDB2 as far as I can tell. Nowhere on the drive does it say P128, V128 or S128...

 

then you have a crucial drive....why did you say corsair?

 

and did you do a clean install onto your ssd or did you make an image of the old drive?

 

oops, yeah sorry. Dug some old memory out of my attic for a second server today-corsair memory. I had to do a clean install because the old OS was chinese. Driver wise I am fine, everything updated for the most part and running well. Pretty sure it is setting related since I was able to make it through a full install from a flashdrive without issue yet windows freezes on me. Yet such a freeze (no error report) makes me think hardware...

 

I have the same drive...mine froze up once when I was extracting something then installing the same thing, so I think it was probably the file/program's fault.