I spoke a little too soon too. It seems that  I can spin down my disk by
doing sudo sg_start 0 /dev/sdb but only if the drive is mounted. This is
already mentioned in bug #117713 by JoeZ251 in comment #45
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/117713/comments/45).

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External disk won't spindown
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/444818
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