500 GB Hitatchi Travelstar causes freezing

And I am not talking about temperature.
After installing the 500 Giger from Hitatchi in my 2008 MacBook Aluminum, the computer freezes every few minutes. The spinning beachball starts and it lasts for about 20 seconds.
Do you think this is caused by the Sudden Motion Sensor? Does the Hitatchi suffer from the same issues as the Seagate disks? Would it help to switch of the Sudden Motion Sensor?

I installed the same drive in my wifes 08 Unibody Macbook, and she has never experienced any problems with it. Is this a 7200 or 5400 RPM version? Just curious...
Her is the specs of the drive in profiler:
Model: Hitachi HTS545050B9A300
Revision: PB4OC60G
Serial Number: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Native Command Queuing: Yes
Queue Depth: 32
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk0
Mac OS 9 Drivers: No
Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified
Volumes:
Users MacBook:
Capacity: 465.44 GB
Available: 191.62 GB
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