Unibody MBP freezing after new hard drive

Hey all, I have a Macbook Pro Mid 2009 Unibody that I replaced the stock 320 GB Hard Drive with a 750GB 7200 RPM Western Digital drive a few months back. Ever since I swapped the drive, my computer has been experiencing random freeze ups in SL (10.6.8) and Windows 7 Pro. I'll just be using the computer, surfing the net in Chrome and listening to iTunes, and my music will stop playing and I can still move the mouse, but Chrome becomes unresponsive, and if I go down to the dock, the dock will freeze in place, but the mouse is still movable. After a few seconds, it goes back to normal. When I installed the new drive I just used Carbon Copy Cloner and WinClone to transfer everything over. I have verifyed and repaired permissions over and over again, and a "Verify Disk" in Disk Utility says the volume appears to be OK. The only thing I have not tried is starting with the SL disk and trying a "repair disk". Does this sound like It may be an issue with the Hard Drive physically, or with the clone of SL? Has anyone had a similar issue? I can try booting it up tomorrow night with the AHT disk and testing everything and then try a repair disk and see if that helps. It's completely updated with the latest firmware updates.

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I've never heard of anyone else having problems with this drive in a MBP.
Do a search and you'll find a lot of people have had the same/similar issues. Some have promoted firmware updates from the manufacturer, some have used HDAPM http://mckinlay.net.nz/hdapm/, some have claimed that formatting the HD in an external enclosure has resolved the issue, some have tried jumpers, some believe it is linked to the SMS, some believe that only HDs purchased from Apple have the proper firmware installed, there's probably an alien theory out there too.

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