Media Encoder Freezing Up Mac When Exporting

Hello,
Not sure if this has started due to a recent Media Encoder update or from the fact that I've switched out my hard drive for a SSD model. It seems that now I can no longer use my Macbook Pro do do email or browse the web when exporting a video from either within Premiere Pro or from one queued in Media Encoder. When the export is in progress, the cpu usage on my Macbook is very low, yet I cannot use anything else. Once the encoding stops, all is fine again. The export preset I'm using is the H:264 same as source high bit rate. My source media and my output paths are both on an external Thunderbolt drive. Any ideas as to what is causing this?
thx

No one have any ideas on this? No one else with SSD drives on a Mac experiencing this?

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