Waiting for western digital

Hi all,
I recently added a 500GB western digital 'my book' to my set up.
The question I want to ask is, why is it that whenever I try to do anything such as opening an app or file I have to wait for the 'my book' to power up before I can get started. It's obviously powered down when not in use but its as though the whole system has to wait until this thing starts up again before responding. I presume I'm using the correct description when saying 'powered down/up'. If its not been running for a while it'll make the noise of a drive starting up anytime there is an activity required, this doesnt mean accessing anything off the drive either. It'll do this if I'm accessing data from one of the partitions too.
I've looked in the startup items to see if theres anything obvious there but cant see anything.
I have had another external hard drive prior to this and that never interfered with the running of my mac. Is it possible something has been installed during the intitial setup. It's connected via firewire BTW

If it has a special driver, it would have been installed by you (running a package or installer program) and you would know about it. A drive cannot automatically install something on your Mac without your knowledge. If something needs to get installed in your System (which would be necessary for a driver to be active), Mac OS X takes the additional precaution of asking for admin user authentication before proceeding.
Take a look at the manual. The drive may have special features that are enabled or disable using switches on the back of the drive.
Another possibility is formatting. If the drive was never re-formatted for use with a Mac, it may be FAT32 format. That could slow things down.

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