I’ve been running WD for >10 years and haven’t had this problem before. Its been moved between PCs several times during that time. The PC is dedicated to WD - its not used for anything else and has no other s/w installed.
No errors in the eventlog - WD doesn’t crash it just drops into not responding for a period then recovers.
I don’t know exactly when the problem started occurring - sometime since January, therefore I cant say with 100% confidence there have been no changes in that time. Certainly I’ve not changed any settings on the PC itself other than Windows Updates. If it was related to Windows Updates I’d expect many others to see the same issue.
I will try WD on another machine to see if it is machine-related and report back.
Kevin