On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 6:48 AM Tony Nelson <tonynelson@georgeanelson.com> wrote:
On 18-10-08 05:32:14, Patrick Dupre wrote:
  ...
> Power mode is:    ACTIVE or IDLE
  ...

== spinning.  See `man hdparm` and "-C".

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Given that the drive posted is a disk drive and not SSD drive a laptop will spin it down to save energy.  The idle trigger may be variable but the drive should already spinning down when not in use, especially since it is on a laptop.  They stay up on NASs, or ppl who turn the idle off, because the time to bring them to speed, in this case 7200 rpm, kill the read/write time.  In your stated use this should not be an issue and the drive is most likely already doing what you want.