Well i don't get this at all, DSS is rock solid stable on my WIN8 machine, and does not need an external hard drive to operate just fine. I have stacked hundreds of 24meg files in four different groups in one run and never had any reliability or performance issues, and my laptop is not a high end machine, just an old ACER E5-511.
I suggest WIN10, and all the crap it comes with, is likely your problem.
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