USB drive sleeps in less than 3 and a half minutes still

I can't believe that after a year and a half still Microsoft will not fix the USB drive sleep problem. I use an external Raid box with 4 HDs. It takes about a minute to awake after the Windows 10 boat anchor puts it to sleep. When I am working on a file I probably save about every 5 minutes, and every time I am waiting for about a minute that my computer is basically froze up while the drive wakes up. This is about the 5th time in that 1.5 years that I have spent a bunch of time trying to find a solution to this only to give up in despair. I have seen several proposed solutions that don't work. I know that I can get a program that will write to the HD every 20 seconds to keep it alive but that is just too ridiculous for me to accept. Please help me; I can't afford to give up on Windows...