xfdesktop hangs when large external drive connected

On Linux Mint 21 xfce, turning on a 4TB external hard drive with multiple NTFS partitions connected through eSATA with hotplug enabled on the motherboard causes the desktop to hang, but all programs work using the menu system. Killing the xfdesktop process and letting it restart restores normal desktop operation. This did not happen in my previous Linux Mint 19 xfce versions, where the external drive partitions would mount and show up on the desktop shortly after turn-on.

As for mount options, here are the relevant lines for the backup drive from the fstab file, if that is of any use:

/dev/disk/by-uuid/8EFAF7A6FAF7892B /mnt/8EFAF7A6FAF7892B auto nosuid,nodev,nofail 0 0 /dev/disk/by-uuid/58A011CAA011AF8C /mnt/58A011CAA011AF8C auto nosuid,nodev,nofail 0 0 /dev/disk/by-uuid/01D0F6F66AA1F110 /mnt/01D0F6F66AA1F110 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail 0 0 /dev/disk/by-uuid/01D0F6F66EC4BFC0 /mnt/01D0F6F66EC4BFC0 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail 0 0 /dev/disk/by-uuid/01D0F6F672C53960 /mnt/01D0F6F672C53960 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail 0 0 /dev/disk/by-uuid/01D0F6F677F1D6F0 /mnt/01D0F6F677F1D6F0 auto nosuid,nodev,nofail 0 0 /dev/disk/by-partlabel/Hitachi-Ext /mnt/Hitachi-Ext auto nosuid,nodev,nofail 0 0

Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you.