Turn off power saving mode on Seagate Expansion Drive with sdparm

I'm trying to see if there's a possibility to disable the power saving on my external Seagate Expansion Drive that is connected through USB to my NUC running Ubuntu Server. I had problems using hdparm as it gave me an error message, so I instead found sdparm that seemed to work for my particular drive according to this post . I run sudo sdparm -l -a /dev/sda and get the following output: /dev/sda: Seagate Expansion Desk 0915 Direct access device specific parameters: WP=0 DPOFUA=0 Caching (SBC) [ca] mode page: IC 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Initiator control ABPF 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Abort pre-fetch CAP 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Caching analysis permitted DISC 1 [cha: n, def: 1, sav: 1] Discontinuity SIZE 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Size enable WCE 1 [cha: y, def: 1, sav: 1] Write cache enable MF 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Multiplication factor RCD 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Read cache disable DRRP 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Demand read retention priority WRP 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Write retention priority DPTL -1 [cha: n, def: -1, sav: -1] Disable pre-fetch transfer length MIPF 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Minimum pre-fetch MAPF -1 [cha: n, def: -1, sav: -1] Maximum pre-fetch MAPFC -1 [cha: n, def: -1, sav: -1] Maximum pre-fetch ceiling FSW 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Force sequential write LBCSS 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Logical block cache segment size DRA 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Disable read ahead SYNC_PROG 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Synchronous cache progress indication NV_DIS 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Non-volatile cache disable NCS 255 [cha: n, def:255, sav:255] Number of cache segments CSS 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Cache segment size Control [co] mode page: TST 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Task set type TMF_ONLY 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Task management functions only DPICZ 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Disable protection information check if protect field zero D_SENSE 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Descriptor format sense data GLTSD 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Global logging target save disable RLEC 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Report log exception condition QAM 1 [cha: n, def: 1, sav: 1] Queue algorithm modifier NUAR 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] No unit attention on release QERR 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Queue error management RAC 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Report a check UA_INTLCK 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Unit attention interlocks control SWP 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Software write protect ATO 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Application tag owner TAS 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Task aborted status ATMPE 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Application tag mode page enabled RWWP 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Reject write without protection SBLP 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Supported block lengths and protection information AUTOLOAD 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Autoload mode BTP 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Busy timeout period (100us) ESTCT 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Extended self test completion time (sec) Power condition [po] mode page: PM_BG 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Power management, background functions, precedence STANDBY_Y 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Standby_y timer enable IDLE_C 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Idle_c timer enable IDLE_B 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Idle_b timer enable IDLE 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Idle_a timer enable STANDBY 0 [cha: y, def: 1, sav: 0] Standby_z timer enable ICT 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Idle_a condition timer (100 ms) SCT 4294967286 [cha: y, def:9000, sav:4294967286] Standby_z condition timer (100 ms) IBCT 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Idle_b condition timer (100 ms) ICCT 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Idle_c condition timer (100 ms) SYCT 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] Standby_y condition timer (100 ms) CCF_IDLE 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] check condition on transition from idle CCF_STAND 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] check condition on transition from standby CCF_STOPP 0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] check condition on transition from stopped I'm very novice to the terminology around HDD's, but my guess is that STANDBY would be a boolean for if the drive should run in standby-mode? Would turning this to 1 instead of 0 tell the disk to not "fall asleep" or is it the opposite? Are there any other settings in the list that I should take a look at or am I doing this completely wrong?