| 1.11 Advanced Power Management |
Active Idle: | The head is in a position of extreme inner in disk medium. |
Low Power Idle: | The head is unloaded from disk. |
| The spindle motor rotates. |
Standby: | The spindle motor stops. |
Table 1.7 Advanced power management
APM Mode | Active Idle | Low Power Idle | Standby | |
(Unload) | (Spin Off) | |||
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15 min. | N/A | |||
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When the maximum time that the HDD is waiting for commands has been exceeded:
*The default values of these settings are reflected in the WORD 91 values of the IDENTIFY DEVICE command. Also, the APM mode is initialized to