Yosemite on 2010 MBP hangs after an hour

I'm having a strange issue similar to the one described here: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/151658/yosemite-hangs-exactly-every-60- minutes
I had a troublesome upgrade to Yosemite on my 2010 MBP with a custom 128 GB SSD installed. I had to abort installation and then recovered from that by reinstalling OSX via recovery mode. Now everything works fine except for the fact that the system freezes (spinning beach ball, can move windows, cannot access force quit or change focus) consistently one hour after boot. Even after several hours nothing happens and the only option is to hard reset. Booting in safe mode has the same effect.
This is obviously pretty frustrating, especially since there seems to be nothing indicating any problems in the system logs, and after a forced restart, no crash report is generated. I don't know what happened for the user in the linked thread, but our issues seem quite similar - what could this be? Some kind of daemon blocking after one hour? Some random energy saver setting whi

If you're running "Cocktail," or anything else that periodically "purges" memory, remove it according to the developer's instructions. Back up all data before making any changes.
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> My application is programmed under LabView 5.1.1 on a windows 2000
> platform.
> I use a MOXA RS232 extending module with a B&B RS485- converter.
> After 10 hours trouble-free working, the application, using
> semaphores, hangs in the serialport read sub-vi.
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Crispy sound in Mid 2010 MBP after update

Hello,
I have 10.9.2, but problem started one update before this. Now, when CPU load increases I hear crisps in sound, and even short pauses. Like with OLD pc 10 years ago. I'm constantly listen to music and code, with peaks of performace now result in crisps. It is directly CPU connected, when click link on page - crisp, app loads - constant crisps. For years i was enjoying prominent sound quality and now... If this really is SW bug, boy I wait when this update reaches DJs ;D
EDIT: it's bug of CHROMIUM! other players and native works fine.
Processor 2,4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256 MB
Software OS X 10.9.2 (13C64)
Intel SSD 160GB

milan1573 wrote:
Keep new SSD in the slot of original hard drive.
Replace optical drive with original drive using caddy (adapter).
Since both the HDD bay and the optical drive bay connections are both SATA2 in a 2010 MBP, it is not critical where the boot drive is positioned.
Turn on in safe mode (cmd + R), go to disc utility, erase disc.
I assume you are actually suggesting 'recovery mode', not "safe mode'. Just for clarification purposes.
Ciao.

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