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<blockquote data-quote="Owlsroost" data-source="post: 1221388" data-attributes="member: 83973">Is the K drive a WD 'Green' HDD by any chance?Certainly in the past, these used to spin-down when idle all by themselves (not just when the OS told them to, it was controlled by the drive firmware) - I used to have one in my old HTPC. I haven't used a recent version of them, so I don't know if the current versions still do that.Because Windows (and the drives themselves) do extensive data caching, if it's got the part of the file that is requested still in the cache, you can have a situation (I've seen it happen occasionally) where a video starts playing (from the cache), then pauses because the next part has to be read from a disk which is stopped (the pause = spin-up delay). This could account for the situation where recording playback starts OK (from the cache), then dies dues to the spin-up delay when it seeks to the 'resume' point (needs new data from disk).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Owlsroost, post: 1221388, member: 83973"] Is the K drive a WD 'Green' HDD by any chance? Certainly in the past, these used to spin-down when idle all by themselves (not just when the OS told them to, it was controlled by the drive firmware) - I used to have one in my old HTPC. I haven't used a recent version of them, so I don't know if the current versions still do that. Because Windows (and the drives themselves) do extensive data caching, if it's got the part of the file that is requested still in the cache, you can have a situation (I've seen it happen occasionally) where a video starts playing (from the cache), then pauses because the next part has to be read from a disk which is stopped (the pause = spin-up delay). This could account for the situation where recording playback starts OK (from the cache), then dies dues to the spin-up delay when it seeks to the 'resume' point (needs new data from disk). [/QUOTE]

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