On 11/02/05 12:35, Steve Adeff wrote:
Now, for example, on a laptop, its actually better to leave the harddrive
spinning than to have it put the harddrive to sleep after a few minutes of
inactivity. I don't know what the equal energy point is,
Generally, if you let a typical desktop/laptop hard drive sleep for more
than 10 to 20 seconds, you'r using less energy. See
http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/stirling/computergeek/powersaving.html ,
specifically the section "How much power are you going to save?" under
"More aggressive technique (for kernel 2.6): LAPTOP MODE" and
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7539 . For those really interested,
check out the other articles in the links in the first article.
Mike
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