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I got a drive over 10 years ago that had some very aggressive power management by default. It would park the heads and spin down less than a minute after the last access. It was so bad that it would kill the drives within a couple of years if you didn't disable it. I found out about it a couple weeks after getting the drive and it already had more load/unload cycles than a disk that's been in normal use for years.
It was a problem with early WD green drives IIRC. The power management was exceptionally aggressive and caused massive issues when put in to any RAID-like set up. You could override it though generally.