Canvio 1.0 TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive HDTC610XK3B1 Sluggish

Bought a Toshiba Canvio 1.0 TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive (HDTC610XK3B1) back during Black Friday 2011. Since I've had it, I've used it on my laptop, my rather powerful HP desktop, and another pretty powerful ACER desktop and all exhibit a very weird problem with the hard drive. Almost as if it's going to sleep or becoming idle, if I haven't accessed it or used it in some time (say I open an image that's on the drive and work on it for 5 minutes in photoshop) and go to either browse, save, or just about anything that would require access to the drive, things lock up for about 15-20 seconds and as I watch the hard drive (which the light will be off) the light will suddenly come on flickering which will then unfreeze the system and I have access to the drive.
It's the only potable hard drive I have that's doing this. I'd imagine it's some sort of auto sleep that it goes into and when you 'awaken' the drive to use it it takes a few seconds to power back up... but that's just my theory. It makes things go very slow when you're working on lots of images on the drive, so any help would be very much appreciated!
What would be causing this momentary freezing as it is accessed? And is there a way to turn this off?

Hi,
I have exactly the same problem... with both my Canvio 1TB drives. (One is a HDTB110XK3BA, the other a HDTC610XK3B1.)
For some reason, NoSleepHD wouldn't install. (Could be because I have a 64-bit system.) As for Linux, I don't have it installed, and I'm no computer technician.
Isn't there a an easier way to get rid of this very annoying problem?
Thanks!

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