USB3 Drive Base Disconnecting During Write Cycle

Well, I spoke too soon about the second port not being a problem. It dropped hard just a few minutes ago.

I have my system hooked up to a Startech docking station, so I run 2 additional monitors, and it has a USB3 powered hub and ethernet on it. I was installing Battlenet onto the drive, and boom. It dropped. I lost my keyboard, ethernet, but surprisingly, my monitors were still on... I had to undock and redock the screen to get things back.

It's consistent now too, if I attempt to install Battlenet, it drops at 89% each time.

I then pulled out my hard drive dock, and plugged my drive in, installed Battlenet, and it worked...

I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to try and explain this too... I'm really starting to lean toward the return and wait till Surface Book 2... I really like what this machine can do, but these bugs and the constant fighting I have to do to get the machine to do what I want is really starting to wear on me.

I haven't tried taking my Surface Book to the store for a replacement (trying to explain this to someone in the store sounds troublesome), but it always seems to me like the power to the entire keyboard gets interrupted randomly, because when this happens the keyboard disconnects briefly.

I can't see too many people talking about this, so that gives me hope that getting a replacement device would solve the issue, but maybe what we're trying to do isn't so common? Just dumping files on my external drive never seems to cause a problem.

I see someone else with the issue too: https://www.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/3soyxx/surface_book_and_external_hard_drive/

It seems he solved the problem with a Y cable, do you have one you can try?

I don't have a Y cable, but I did try using an external powered drive dock (http://amzn.to/1TrQXlT), and it worked fine. It seems like some kind of power interrupt when the drive gets busy. So does that mean I have a defective port on the Surface Book, or is this some kind of design flaw?

I see someone else with the issue too: https://www.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/3soyxx/surface_book_and_external_hard_drive/

It seems he solved the problem with a Y cable, do you have one you can try?

Somehow I missed this post when I created mine: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/forum/surfbook-surfdrivers/surface-book-devices-disconnecting/f70035bd-7aa4-4f9e-88de-47f252002ec8?tm=1448859308876

But this sounds like the exact same thing, also happening when trying to store Steam games on a USB3 SSD. I've made absolutely no progress in fixing this, but this issue is doing a very good job of corrupting files on my SSD.