Need Advice - Stuttering Video using External HDD

[PapalPenguin 0]

I am dealing with issues with a old USB HDD where some MKV files have been having stuttering when playing on my Google TV 4K box. 

System Info: in My Gaming PC file

Intel i5-13400F with 32 GB DDR4

C Drive 1 TB NVME

D Drive 4 TB NVME

E Drive 1 TB SSD

F Drive(where my media is) USB External WD WD50NDZM 5 TB HDD

WD MyPassport 260D USB External 5 TB HDD

Model WD50NDZM

 

I am looking to get a new HDD as I feel this one might be having issues due to age and the casing has a crack in it sadly. 

Looking at these two HDD's and wondering which one would be the better option:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DW8ZW47C/?coliid=I1XTYFCNVVVQN3&colid=2LCEWMVHVJCO6&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it

or 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084ZTSMWF/?coliid=I3D0ZS2HARWF80&colid=2LCEWMVHVJCO6&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it

Or is the problem that I am using a HDD instead of a faster SSD? 

 

My Gaming PC.LOG

[RanmaCanada 542]

Your drive has bad sectors and is starting to fail. Instead of buying from Amazon I would suggest goharddrive or ServerPartDeals. They both sell refurbished drives with 2-5 year warranties.

12TB with 5 year warranty "only" $320 (they used to be $75 before the AI/Surveillance Centre Apocalypse) 24TB with 5 year warranty for $560

I have personally bought from goharddrive in the past, and lots of users on reddit do as well.

If you can come to Canada, you can get drives for cheaper shipped out of the states..24TB external for $660 CDN, or $474 USD..

[TMCsw 268]

34 minutes ago, PapalPenguin said:

Intel i5-13400F with 32 GB DDR4

It could also be that the "F" in your processor name doesn't support HW acceleration. 

Software transcoding may also be your problem.

Before you buy new equipment, please upload your logs...

 

[PapalPenguin 0]

3 minutes ago, TMCsw said:

It could also be that the "F" in your processor name doesn't support HW acceleration. 

Software transcoding may also be your problem.

Before you buy new equipment, please upload your logs...

 

Here are my latest logs

hardware_detection-63916280929.txt ffmpeg-directstream-38ecaa04-7d0f-4d17-b878-516cd6635bf8_1.txt embyserver (14).txt

ffmpeg-transcode-1f0050f6-e3b6-4218-9490-1139d15ca793_1.txt

Edited 26 minutes ago by PapalPenguin

[PapalPenguin 0]

Some logs from when I was noticing problems as it is playing fine right now, note I have a VPN(ProtonVPN) and I have a tunnel setup to go to emby but it shows the ip for the vpn. When I turn off VPN and stop qbittorrent and then restart emby it plays fine, not sure if its the vpn, downloads, etc

embyserver (13).txt ffmpeg-transcode-13195652-ad0b-49fe-b74c-d5aea8a61e49_1.txt