System goes read only, after reboot all is fine for a day or two

OK, so here's the problem, I got a new PC, all fanless, SSD hard and all.
Works well for a day or so, then goes read only. For example - I come back from work, type something in the terminal and I get Input/Output Error. I cannot reboot, it says Input/Output Error as well.
So I hard-reset it, it boots up, everything is fine again for a day or two.
The HDD is Corsair CSSD-F40GB2, the MB is Gigabyte H55N-USB3, proc i3 540,
The / and /home are both ext4 mounted with defaults,noatime,discard.
I tried with/without discard.
I also tried changing the SATA/power cables - same results.
I also tried enabling/disabling features in BIOS like DMA/SMART/AHCI/compatibility stuff - same results.
Here's a dmesg I managed to get (errors are near the end).
http://pastebin.com/vJfdW90z
And here's a smartctl -a /dev/sda:
http://pastebin.com/eQxASEBM
Any suggestions are welcome. Also is there some diagnostic app for Corsair SSD that I can run and check the drive?
Cheers.

Well I don't recall how freshly booted, it was the only time that the system was read-only - giving input/output error to everything but dmesg was working so I saved it all to pastebin.
The system is a PC so I never tried anything else different from poweroff/reboot (works fine).

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