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Originally Posted by Darryl Ramm
Yes. Just not a drive I'd be doing anything performance critical on. That under spec slow drive may make differences between Pro Tools versions here much more significant.
And back to the OP
What file system is on the drive?
Lots of potential things to think about with troubleshooting. Disk Cache size already mentioned. And it's not just the size of the cache... but you should look at the amount of cache in use before and during the import and try to see if it's low and therefore maybe having to evict content from the cache. You will only see stuff load into the disk cache if you import clips to tracks. With content not moved you would hope only the header block is rewritten - It would not surprise me that Pro Tools might do some inefficient handling here. And just try with cache "normal" to see if it makes any difference.
How come you are importing this stuff on an external 5400 RPM drive and then not moving it during import? e.g. into the session folder on a fast SSD?
Have tried trashing prefs before each import and starting with sessions in exactly the same state (ie. totally empty, not from a template) before import?
You mention audio but is there video on the session and/or in the import?
If this is important you maybe also want to file an incident with Avid customer support, have them look over this with you, reporting it on DUC is unlikely to get something looked at by support/tracked as an incident or escalated to bug. If you already have an incident number posting it here may help get attention on it.
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USB 3.2 is meaningless if the drive is slow.
There are plenty of USB 3 drives with faster HDD drives that will perform way better.
Optimally, moving the SSD drives will change everything.