There's that, but other users are complaining about similar issues even on internal SSDs so blaming it on an external drive is moot. But I digress. At least the issue's more or less solved, but I am...

Well yeah, though I run mine off a external hard drive and streaming issues still persist even when setting the process priority to high. But it might have been something else.

Might as well disable it then. I also wonder if it accounts for the stuttering issues with GTA V or something...

I end up with this on certain occasions, and in all instances it seems to occur whenever Firefox is running. Tried updating the Realtek LAN drivers among other things, but I still end up with the...