Just a thought, but maybe the difference with "Safely remove drive" (besides that it spins down) is that it unmounts all filesystems on the device, making it safe to remove the device as a whole, rather than unmounting what may or may not be the last FS left mounted on the device.
Von Fugal -- Don't believe everything you think.
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