Disk hanging for 60 seconds

[Tlkki]

Sometimes when i am seeking a video file located on this Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB HD103UJ or copying data to/from it, all disk activity drops to zero for exactly 60 seconds. Copy process hangs or media player stops responding, and i cant open any folders not i cache from that drive in particular.

All other disks work 100%, i can open the browser from my system disk for example and browse the web. Only that one disk hangs for 60 seconds and then resumes like nothing happened. This has happened from the start. I just got a new rig in january.

W7 64Bit
GA-EX58-UD5
i7 920
6GB DDR3 1600
microsoft sata drivers

WTF?

Oh and the disks are the same i used on my old machine under XP. This never occured then.

 

[nickbits]

Drive is failing. Rma it. Check SMART i bet you hae a lot of "relocation events".

 

[Tlkki]

Reallocation count shows 0, and reallocated sector count shows 0. I thought it would have been extremely weird coincidence if the drive started to fail at exactly the same time i updated my system.

 

[RebateMonger]

Two weeks ago, I built a new Win7 Ultimate PC with Intel P45/ICH10R chipset and an older WD 320 GB SATA disk set up in AHCI mode and an IDE DVD reader. When it first came up, it was using the built-in Microsoft AHCI drivers. Every time I had a disk access, the computer would stop responding for 30 seconds or so.

I installed the Intel AHCI drivers and it started working perfectly.

I'd used this same motherboard since the start of the Win7 Beta program with a different disk(probably IDE) and had never had a problem.