Baffling - Safari Rolling Up My External Drives While Loading Page

Does anyone have any idea why when I try to open up a web page with Safari, before it will load Safari seems to be rolling up my external hard drives from their sleep mode and won't load the page until they are active and spinning? This is quite baffling to me as I'm not trying to save anything or would require anything off these drives to look at a web page. Has done it on multiple pages - Facebook, Twitter, others. This is new since I upgraded to Lion. I have 1Password installed as an extention, and that's about it. It's really slowing down my surfing (wait, does anyone call it surfing anymore?).
For what possible reason would it do this?

For what possible reason would it do this?
This is the way computers work. This is not new since you upgraded to Lion, u just may have not noticed it before, and harddrives spinning is a good thing and normal. U might have other problems however. Anyway, I won't go into it here, but you can google how harddrives work and interact with apps on google.

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