My retina macbook is slow to startup when my external drive is attached

Ive had my macbook retina for a couple of days now and generally the boot time is amazingly fast. But it seems that now Ive connected my usb devices to it (including my external drive) there is a long pause on the white screen at the beginning of startup . If I unplug everything it goes back to being really fast again!
is this normal?
thanks for any help!
Nick

No problem. Do you have a particular reason to shut down your system though? If you use it on a daily basis then I'd suggest just putting it to sleep rather than a full shutdown.
This doesn't harm your machine. Only shut it down when there's a real extended period of no use. In sleep mode you can benefit from the Power Nap feature of your retina as well:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5394

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