after searching forums for the solution to my problem for the last couple of 
days, I think I may have found what's causing freezes. I'm still testing it to 
check for 100% if this is the case, but for now I believe that freezes are 
caused by the driver using the NCQ to communicate with SSD (which is of course 
pointless - SSD drives don't need to optimze the order of disk operationsm 
apparently it causes some errors).
 
The point is that after disabling NCQ for the SSD the errors stoped occuring 
(I've not encountered any for about 48h - earlier te freezes happened  every 
couple of hours or even more often). 

To disable NCQ I added "libata.force=5:noncq" to default kernel options
in /etc/default/grub like this:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash libata.force=5:noncq"

and updated grub.

I used "5:" because  errors i saw occured with ata5 info in dmesg - in
original report to this bug it was ata6, as you can see above, but it
changed to ata5, probably because I was switching ports on my
motherboard.

if anyone experience similar bug, please try this solution and report
here.

credits for the solution go to:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10480137&postcount=8

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