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Because I spent so much time trying to track this down and went down so many dead-ends, I want to tell everyone that what caused my very strange #USB behavior on my brand new #Windows 11 system was in fact @WesternDigital Security.
The symptom was that any time there was a lot of data going to or from an external hard drive, I would get USB connectivity dropouts to other devices, including my keyboard, mouse, and sound card. The easiest way to see this was that the keyboard backlight would flash.
I could reproduce this problem easily using winsat disk -drive Z -seq -write; almost every time I could get a keyboard flash and a sound dropout when sending a lot of data to/from the external drive Z (which is NOT a WD drive).
