I am always listening to music on my PC (always via VLC Player) and every so often - maybe once every 2 songs, sometimes more frequently- the music stops playing (VLC's buffer/progress bar stops moving, as does the playing time) and I hear my hard drive starting up again, which will have went onto some sort of lower power mode by then, without my noticing, and the music restarts where it left off, as if it had buffered.
My question would be summarized thusly:
How can I stop my external hard drive from going into any sort of lower power/dormant /re-buffer state that it seems to be going into?
Some extra detail:
The hard drive is 1TB (not solid state), with NTFS formatting (Cannot reformat, too many items on there, at least over 700GB)