Music playback halts when transferring files

soccerdude84

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Apr 13, 2014
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Right now I have all my music on my C drive, and when that music is playing while transferring large files to my D drive (around 10GB or more), the music locks up for 10-15 seconds at a time (this usually starts about 3 minutes into the transfer), so basically I have to pause it until the transfer is done. It's really annoying and I think it's because the hard drive is being overworked but I'm not really sure. It's SATA 2 and the transfer speeds are usually between 40-60MB/s which I think is much less than what SATA 2 can do.

for reference, this is my motherboard:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130098
and I have 2 of these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136161

my next build will be this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130693
and this
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236339


I just want to know if I'm gonna run into the same problem and what I can do to fix it (buying a dedicated hdd for music?)
 
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Possibly, you might have just not enough RAM on your system to accumulate those simultaneous running applications and heavy file transfers you are doing that causes your system to be choked.

trekzone

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Mar 31, 2014
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Possibly, you might have just not enough RAM on your system to accumulate those simultaneous running applications and heavy file transfers you are doing that causes your system to be choked.
 
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