I’ve had a couple of these

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June 1, 2011 at 7:56 pm #4177
RehabMan

    I’ve had a couple of these AV-GP drives in my HTPC.  The first one was a 500GB drive which seemed to work great.  I recently upgraded it to a 1TB drive and now I notice the occasional stutter.  Is it a problem with the drive or something else?  Was the 500GB drive better or did I just not notice it happening before?  I tend to suspect something else (software) on the PC is causing it…

    I’m tempted to start disabling services and background tasks slowly until I don’t see it any more, but it is so rare, I’m not sure I’d ever be sure of the cause/effect (it happens maybe once for every 2 hours playback).

    Most of all I wonder if it is the anti-virus software (Microsoft Security Essentials) as I sometimes see it running in the background on my laptops/desktops when I least expect it… and to tell you the truth I question the necessity of running anti-virus on a dedicated WMC machine.  I don’t run anti-virus on my WHS server either and could probably do the same on my HTPC.

    Things to try… things to try…