Western Digital 1TB My Book Pro Freezes while listening to iTunes.

MP3 collection is on the MyBook.
iTunes plays MP3s when all of a sudden, during a song, it halts playback and Finder with it (beachball).
Can't access Finder nor the mounted MyBook drive. Any kind of query on the MyBook (through Terminal or Disk Utility) at this point hangs the app that is querying. MyBook lights are on constantly.
Upon shutdown the system hangs at the blue screen forever until I do a hard shutdown with the MBP's power button and disconnect from FW800 port at which point drive turns off.
Upon restart it's fine until I go into iTunes again and hangs again (not at the same song). I am able to replicate this problem everytime.
Any suggestions?

rimcrazy wrote:
What are your Energy settings? Is your MacBook or MyBook going to sleep? You say you can repeat it, is it repeatable at exactly the same time? If so this would make me think it is something to do with your power settings.
Hey Rimcrazy, no my MBP is not going to sleep. The power settings are to set to Custom which leaves the MBP always on 24/7 pretty much. The problem is indeed repeatable but not at the same time. I've emailed WD about it and I have yet to receive answer. The MyBook is going to sleep when not active (normal) and the data seems to be intact after numerous hard shutdowns.

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