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Originally Posted by musicman691

You do NOT physically remove the drives from your computer but from Device Manager.
So I've done everything that I could understand as far advice here and the article on optimizing and troubleshooting.
I will say that things are much better, but there is still the occasional "pause" for lack of a better word. I'll answer the questions below.
Do you have any wireless stuff going on other than maybe mouse/keyboard?
No
Virus scanner running?
Yes, Avast
What other programs do you have running when working inside PT?
None and I turned off all background programs as suggested.
Any 'green' drives? Are your drives sleeping?
I don't think so, but how to check?
Disk indexing happening?
I turned that off for all drives that use PT.

I also started the Sista Report but after 3 hours, it was stuck on 20% so I quit. Perhaps I didn't check the right boxes? I just went with the default items that were checked.