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12/4/11 at 7:12am
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I have a WD7501AALS that I put in use this January for storage.  Its my HDD #4 all sata to the MB,  its not my main OS drive (which is an SSD.)

 

I download  Grateful Dead concerts (legal) so this drive gets a fair amount of use,  probably a couple gbs a week.

 

Recently when I play tracks (any and all) from this particular drive I get drop-outs/skips.  This is with no other use of the drive going on.  Playing same tracks from any of my other drives gives no problems.   I unistalled Foobar and installed the latest just to rule that out.  Problem remained.

 

I use Wasapi with an Art Legato.   When the dropout occur I can "see them" on the foobar visualization scroll.

 

According to S.M.A.R.T    everything has status OK (Hard disk sentinel 3.4 pro.) 

 

Now this is an black drive which I thought better for heavy use.

 

Only isue is temp reports 53F with a 58F max. I try to keep the noise down.  All my other drives read 30-40C so I always thought this was just a poorly calibrated sensor.

 

But is it possible it is thermal throttling?   I guess has anyone run across an issue like this and what should I try before getting rid of it?

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