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I did as stated. Installed some updates and rebooted and it showed the message stating that the updates were being configured and it froze at ~90%. I waited for an hour but it didnt go through. Rebooted the PC again and it froze after using it a bit.
I was tired of the issue so I got a new SSD for the OS and removed the older one. I have been using the PC for a few weeks now on the new SSD and the issue is gone so I think we can safely assume that the SSD is faulty. I am just using the old SSD as an external disk to store some redundant data and so far it is working alright for this purpose.
TL;DR - Had to replace my SSD.
@axe0: Thank you for providing all the help, it is highly appreciated. I wish I could buy you a beer, please pm Paypal info :)
I will mark this thread as solved.