Aggressive Link Power Management
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Description
When enabled via the AHCI controller, this allows the SATA host bus adapter to enter a low-power state during periods of inactivity, thus saving energy. The drawback to this is increased periodic latency as the drive must be re-activated and brought back on-line before it can be used, and this will often appear as a delay to the end-user.
States
There are three states:[2]
- Active
- Low Power with two internal states Partial and Slumber. Partial has a maximum return latency of 10 microseconds while slumber has a maximum latency of 10 milliseconds.
- Device Sleep with a maximum return latency of 20 milliseconds unless otherwise specified in Identify Data Log
These can be selected by the SATA AHCI driver, usually via a configuration option.
See also
References
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- Aggressive Link Power Management - Red Hat
- http://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc/reference-guide/sata-devices-implementation-recommendations.pdf Designing Energy Efficient SATA Devices PDF - Intel
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