External HDD keeps spinning on and off every 10 tot 15 seconds (Xbox series X)

i just did a "test". first i left the box labled "When xbox is off, turn off storage" and for about 5 mins the both my xbox and HDD wasquiet then the LED on the HDD turned on. ok fine. then after about 10 -15seconds it turned off. then again 10 seconds later
it turned on. so i listened and every 10 seconds it would spin up and then turn off. i waited for about 20 mins seeing if it would stp but it never did. then i went and unchecked the box and the same thing. would spin my HDD up for 10 secs then turn off for
10 secs. it doesnt take a genius to tell that somthing is wrong with that. thereis no reason it should make the HDD turn on and off every 10 seconds.

Untill this stupid instant on mode is fixed ill be stuck with the ever worse energy saver mode. and yes i ubderstand if it weredownloading something it would do that. but i shouldnt. if it wereto be downloading something it shouldnt turn the HDD on and off
every 10 seconds!!

Yes that seems like a possibility, i will try it and post what the results are.

On a side note, every time i turn my xbox one off, the external hdd spins down aswell. But then after a few seconds, the external disk spins up again. Only to spin down, and as soon as it has done that, it spins back up again. And so on so on like 8-12 times
before it finally spins down and stays in that state.

Also i have noticed that the external hdd spins up at random times, when the XBO is turned off. So i have assumed that the XBO did have control over it, even when in low power mode.

Especially since my external hdd uses its own power supply (which rules out not enough power from the XBO in low power mode to run it.)

But as mentioned above, i will try it and post the results

Attempted to turn off the option to power down drive so that it would be always on, but even then it spins down and up again every minute. So it seems no matter what setting it's on, it will not

1. keep drive powered on when in standby

or

2. keep drive powered off when in standby

So if it's doing a status check every 60 seconds, is it the drive that is spinning up on its own, or is it the XBOX OS that is spinning it up I wonder?

I have another drive which I have plugged in and tried this on, it is a Hitachi Touro 1tb (usb powered hdd) and it also spins up every 60 seconds. I plugged the hitachi into another XBOX one S and noticed it exhibited the identical behaviour... Spinning
up and down every 60 seconds.

So that's two drives on two Xbox One's. I'm very puzzled. Thoughts?

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-Toggle the "When Xbox is off, turn off storage" on and off, and no difference, external hdd keeps spinning up every 4 minutes

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Retry this but add a power cycle of the console before.

To power cycle follow this step: https://beta.support.xbox.com/help/hardware-network/power/restart-or-power-cycle-console

external hdd's are not fast enough for the new series s/x optimised games and therefore have to run off the internal ssd or the new expansion cards, all xbox one games and 360 BC games can run off your external hdd.