Re: [Server-devel] Questions for today

2013-08-14 Thread James Cameron
Oh, it was the latter paragraph that I retract. I still think Sugar Network is a pretty cool idea that should be considered further by both XS and XSCE developers. On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 05:51:55PM +1000, James Cameron wrote: > I like Sugar Network, because the problem of content sharing is > ex

Re: [Server-devel] Western Digital hard disk data

2013-08-14 Thread James Cameron
Thanks, that all sounds reasonable. It is not practical to make clear recommendations from these tests, because of the number of dimensions in the phase space that have not been explored: - how other external drives of the same model draw power and respond to the bus voltage, (manufacturing var

Re: [Server-devel] Western Digital hard disk data

2013-08-14 Thread George Hunt
James, et al, Monitoring the transient voltage minimums, running on battery, not charging, with 2 ethernet dongles as additional load I get the following in my testing of WD external "my passport" drive: XO4 -- voltage droops to 4.51 -- spins up reliably XO1.75 -- voltage droops to 4.56 -- spins

Re: [Server-devel] Questions for today

2013-08-14 Thread David Farning
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:39 AM, James Cameron wrote: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 05:51:55PM +1000, James Cameron wrote: > > I like Sugar Network, because the problem of content sharing is > > examined from a top down design perspective, including the constraint > > that internet connectivity migh