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so was having a couple of freezes a day since HS updating. And read through this thread, trying to piece it together.
I'm running SSD for OS drive, Home folder on it too, then another few standard HDs on it too, no drives permitted to sleep. I swapped my Sata cables around so that the boot drive was disk1 and all's been running well since (a few days now – so not 100% sure yet... )
I can only guess why, but the new APFS things and the EFI them look like they may need priority over other HDs. And they should reply first as they're quicker.
Anyways hope this helps someone as this forum has gotten me outta so many jams over so long.
I'm running SSD for OS drive, Home folder on it too, then another few standard HDs on it too, no drives permitted to sleep. I swapped my Sata cables around so that the boot drive was disk1 and all's been running well since (a few days now – so not 100% sure yet... )
I can only guess why, but the new APFS things and the EFI them look like they may need priority over other HDs. And they should reply first as they're quicker.
Anyways hope this helps someone as this forum has gotten me outta so many jams over so long.
Lets have another theory, shall we?
I'm counting 5 days of uptime so far - and what did I change - I did move my SSD to another port, served by different controller. It is still SATA3, but no hangs anymore. In fact, there were couple of hickups, that were looking like it is going to lock-up the same way as before, but (miraculously) the OS was able to recover from that in a matter of seconds.
So there is this one more thing to try - move your SSD (*) to another port, by another controller - if possible, and observe.
(*) yes I did intentionally skip the "if you have SSD" cause I would just love to believe that our trouble with HS is caused by SSD.. Anyone with this problem, but not having SSD, now it is time to come out!
(**) my board has 3 different types of SATA ports, first group is handled by ICH and that is just SATA2, then there is Marvell 9128 which is apparently SATA3 and also JMB362 for eSATA group. Now this is quite odd and confusing, cause I did originally had SSD hooked on to 9128, and now on something else which is detected in HS as "Generic AHCI", and "Link speed: 6 Gigabit" - and that one is different from "5 Series Chipset" that I also have listed there. I get 370+ MB/sec on reading, which is clearly more than sata2 link speed.. but neither ICH or JMB362 should be able to do more than SATA2.
UPDATE:
9 days uptime, so it is definitively SATA port issue. Maybe SATA3 related, maybe specific controller, but works for me!