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You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. I have this wall-powered hub connected to a thunderbolt port on my new M4 Mac Mini:

Whenever I plug in my spinning external hard drives, and use them for about a few minutes. My system freezes and then restarts. I'm using the latest version of Sequoia.

I had this same issue with my mom's M2 mini on Ventura. I just thought something was wrong with hers for the longest time. She has a wall-powered USB-A hub like mine, but it's the Anker brand. We ended up getting the Amphetamine app, and just keeping a low enough ping time interval to prevent the drive from sleeping.

It's the weirdest behavior I've ever seen in a Mac, but it seems to be systemic to the M Macs. I can't believe this is still happening with the M4s though. I thought Apple would fix it by now. Is the only option to run Amphetamine? I hate to run it, because I think it might be lowering the life of the drive. I do have SSDs, but I'd like to continue to use these older drives for storage too. Any ideas?