Sporadic audio cut out on USB

[MacGreiner]

For about the last 6 months I've been getting audio cut outs every now and again when playing back music off a a partitioned USB 3 drive. Initially I heard there was a FLAC issue so reencoded to mp3 - same issue.
I have already changed drives so I know it is not that.
The Samsung drive I have is partitioned for both Music and Sentry.

Is anyone having this issue?

 

[sduck]

Have you tried using two drives? it's quite likely the controller chip in your drive is being overwhelmed by having to manage two unbuffered data streams. I use two drives, and don't have this issue.

 

[animorph]

No.

I agree, try two drives. Seems like it is not fast enough to keep up with both uses.

 

[Lexdysic]

I dumped off some music on a USB drive last week and tried it for the first time. Noticed a couple of hiccups- drop outs and a couple of skips. Didn't think much of it at the time. I suppose it could be a cheap and slow USB drive I used. I think the lesson here is to use a fast drive.