It is being worked on, its just low priority because as they said, the api's aren't meant for tools such as gpu-z/hwinfo in the consumer field, but for server monitoring, which isn't suffering at all.
Hey Martin, you can filter these out by excluding Xbox class adapters. HWInfo seems to contribute to the dongles running warmer even when controls are on and being used, theres a few different drivers at hand but it seems its the ones that are of *IfType = 281...
When asking someone to use hwinfo to provide some device metrics to identify hardware stablity concerns, these values often get overlooked by the person supplying them.
I disabled all those before landing on the particular drive and its smart data being to blame, this and the pulsating hum i'm ready to clone to a new set of drives and be done with this wacky samsung nonsense.
Its one of the few HDD's i've had that records host writes, gsense errors, and...
Martin, I have isolated a stutter like reported by op to a specific drive, SAMSUNG HD502HJ
Are you aware of any issues with this drive, apart from its unusual raw data formats, the same issues do not manifest with aida64.