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Most SSDs work perfectly with SATA revision 2.0 (SATA 3 Gbit/s) and SATA revision 3.0 (SATA 6 Gbit/s) and locking it to SATA 2.0 most of the times isn't really necessary. if it doesn't the risk of updating the firmware and something going wrong is bigger than that it really helps.

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before performing a firmware update try to find out, wether your issueВ is actually named in a changelog.

often theВ first answer you'll getВ from aВ support agent butВ with ssds it seems to actually quite dramatically helps with issues.

if you scroll up in the thread you'll also find all the info regarding the bootable cd.

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how to lock your OCZ ssd to SATA2 speed is explained here.

bought an OCZ ssd? in this case you can make use of their bootable cd, that makes use of a minimal linux desktop to configure your hdd.

if you use a sata3 ssd with a sata2 controller, the ssd might try to switch back and forth between sata 3 and sata 2В and makes the system hang during this action.В to fix this you'll have to lock the ssd to sata2, so it's the only standard leftВ to use.

boot from the ssd to check if it helped.

apply all changes by clicking on the green check mark symbole.

now right click on the swap partition and add the leftover space you just created to it.

right click on the partition preceeding the swap space, click resize and make it a couple of gigabytes smaller.

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by typing 'sudo gparted' in a terminal window, if it isn't installed, install it by typing 'sudo apt-get install gparted'

you can achieve this two ways, either bootup from a Ubuntu Live CD on the same computer or connect the SSD to another computer.Especially if the swap isn't much bigger than your memory, this might just do the trick.

If the above fix seems to haven't helped a lot, and you are able to force the freeze issue like descibed above, the far better fix might be to enlarge your swap space.

Sometimes this helps if you are experiencing freeze issues, sometimes not (other optionsВ underneath) Switching off ncq can take the 'pressure' off the ssd a bit, but also makes it a bit slower.

Explanation: What you actually do here is to change how your ssd is accessed.

If this didn't help and you want to undo this change, just edit your /etc/default/grub again, delete the inserted 'libata.force=noncq', save it, execute 'sudoВ update-grub' and reboot.

Reboot and enjoy all the benefits of your shiny new SSD!.

paste the following command hit enter, enter your password.

open up a terminal window (in gnome press: CTRL + ALT + T).

you'll have to boot with an additional boot option, just follow these easy steps:.

alternatively it might also happen after transferring a given number of MBs and might show afterВ e.g.В 500MB while copying aВ file of 1 Gb.

not having changed the swap space during Ubuntu 11.10 installation manually might add to the problem, because then it might be only as big as the physical memory.

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at the point when the memory and/or the swap is full you'll experience the lockup.open up a lot of programs or tabs with heavy web pages in a web browser.watch the memory and swap graph while doing the following.

start gnome-system-monitor (you can also typeВ gnome-system-monitor in a terminal window).

it's actually forceable you can watch the progress to the system lockup by doing the following:.

you might have noticed that it the hangs occure especially, when you do a lot of stuff at the same time.

But be sure to especially read the part regarding SATA 1 incompatibility because in that case you might not have any other option than returning it and buy a different one. So you updated to a SSD and enjoy the 10-15 sec bootup time but are getting annoyed by your system hanging now and then? Don't return your ssd yet, since it might be fixable with adding a little boot option.

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