Hard drives keep spinning down ??

I'm using 2 large OWC hard drives to edit with Adobe Premiere. I usually edit with SSD drives, but this project has lots of footage. The drives will spin down if I haven't played footage from them in what seems like 30 seconds or so. They will also spin up randomly even if I'm not pulling footage.

I'm on a Mac Book Pro M1 machine with OS Ventura 13.3. I have to keep my computer from going to sleep otherwise they unmount as well. I have fixed that issue, but the drives spinning down and waking up every minute or so is difficult to work with. My research says it's the OS, but not sure how to fix it.

Thanks