On Tue, 28 Dec 2010, Neil Brown wrote:

If anyone has any data on default spin-down times of these "green" 
drives I would be keen to hear about it.

The problem I've seen is the load/unload cycle count increasing, the head 
parking occurs after 8 seconds.

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I've never seen one spin down though, I wonder if the original poster was 
talking about the head parking and not drive spindown.

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