Quote Originally Posted by Animeniax View Post
The SATA 7200rpm harddrive in my Win7-64 laptop does the same thing. The system is very slow to respond to commands, particularly with Windows explorer and Firefox. When the pause happens, the harddrive light is solid but there's no indication that anything is causing read/writes from/to the harddrive. Other programs like WMP open fine during these pauses.

Any ideas are appreciated.
So hopefully I don't jinx it, but my SSD has given me zero problems since switching to Google Chrome and away from Firefox. No more hangs or crashes or funny business. Sucks because I don't want to use just Google products, same as I don't want only shop at Walmart. Fight the power!