I have the exact same issue, but without the strange noise. I can see it with Windows 8.1 task manager… Disk active time is 100% and response time, read speed and write speed are zero. Then after a while it recovers.
So any news on this matter? I do not know if its related but sometimes after this freeze my mainboard competely drops the HDD of and I have to power off the machine to get it back… Reset just won’t help.
Too bad I try to run some virtual machines on this HDD…
