External HDD slow to wake up

Soldato
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I have an External G-Technology G-Drive Pro connected to my iMac 5K but I have an issue that's starting to annoy me.

After a while of not being accessed the drive goes quiet and I assume goes to sleep.

The problem is when I try to access the drive again it can take a couple of minutes to wake up/be usable again (it remains quiet then after a while starts to spin up).

Any idea what the problem could be? I understand that the drive can go to sleep to save power etc but I did not expect it to take so long to wake up again!
 
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