How to make sure that OS X / programs do not pull an external drive unnecessarily?

Question

Hard disks

Hey! I often sit with an external hard drive connected, which, if unnecessary, falls asleep on a timeout. At the same time, if I want to save something from the Internet, the browser freezes until the disk wakes up again and spins up, even if the save directory that appears is not a hard drive, but any other folder on the computer. This is also the behavior of some other programs that open documents not from an external drive - they freeze until it wakes up.
Is this thing customizable? So that the system would not pull the disk every time from sleep mode if there is no explicit, from my user's point of view, access to the disk for reading / writing?

Answer 1

Unlikely. I don’t know how it is in Linux, in Windows it’s the same as in macOS - in order to be able to display the directory tree of a connected, albeit asleep, disk, the OS is forced to access it (or to make sure that it is available at all). Maybe there is a hidden setting somewhere, but I don’t remember in obvious places either in win or in OS X. And no one else either:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2313781
www.quora.com/Why-does-Mac-OS-X-have-to-spin-up-my...
You can change the power saving settings , preventing the disk from "sleeping". This is the only solution so far.
This is a clear flaw in macOS \ wines, because. It would be more logical to spin the disk only if the user accesses it explicitly, but it just so happened ...