apple prores (proxies) audio cutting out

(Microsoft 11, HP Laptop) Currently in Premiere Pro 25.0, and I've been running into this issue where Apple ProRes (only this specifically, as when I make H.264 proxies, this does not happen, but the time it takes to make H.264 is ridiculous. I use Shutter Encoder and you can probably encode 5 files into Apple ProRes in the time it takes to convert one to H.264, but I digress) audio cuts out, both in the source panel and in the sequence. Is there a way to fix this without "render and replace"? That's the suggestion I see commonly made, but in the time it takes to do that (which you can only do once it's in the sequence, and with my workflow it's key that I can hear it in the source panel as well), I might as well toggle off proxies and suffer through a slightly slower/more glitchy playback. Please let me know if there are any solutions to this issue. 

I also see people mentioning you must have a large drive for this to work, and currently all my footage is storage in a 2 TB drive that is plugged into my laptop when editing, so I don't know if that is the issue either.