External drives spinning up on Mac Mini wake up

These are IOMega MiniMax hard drives. When the Mini goes to sleep, they stay on. But when the Mini wakes up, they all turn off, then on. I figure it's OS X re-mounting them. Is there no way of getting around that, because it's not good for the hard drives to spin down/up so often.

They should be fine and won't use as much electricity that way.
If you are concerned enough to do something different the use of a powered USB or FireWire hub, depending on the bus, will keep them from powering down when the Mac does.

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Hi,
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