I have been trying various options with hdparm, like setting the spin-down time to 5 minutes withhdparm -S 60 and setting the APM to 1, but I end up getting a spin-down in less than 5 seconds... How do these values combine to end up in a spin-down time?EDIT:According to Western Digital support:Thank you for contacting Western Digital Customer Service and Support.  My name is Esther.I apologize for the inconvenience, I will be more than glad to assist you. The WD Black internal hard drive doesn't have a utility that can be used to adjust the drive's spin down time.Unfortunately, since you're using a third party application (HDPARM) to adjust the drive's spin down, we're unable to provide any information on how to properly set the parameters on the utility. We would recommend contacting the manufacturer of the application.If you have any further questions, please reply to this email and we will be happy to assist you further.Does anybody have any suggestions for getting some more useful information from my drive manufacturer about this?
how does hdparm calculate spin-down times?
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