Cubase projects crash when on external HDD

Dear support,

as of late, I’m using an external hard disk (T7 Shield) as my storage for Cubase projects, as I have to pool between a desktop and a laptop. I had one project in particular that kept crashing, on laptop & desktop, when working from the hard drive (connected via USB 3.0 connection). I tried this as wel with another new project, which didn’t crash as often, but still did at times. I copied the project to my local hard drive and did not give any issue.

Is this a known thing? Any solution for it?

Many thanks