On Wednesday 02 November 2005 18:14, Michael T. Dean wrote: > 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
great articles Mike, thanks! Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
