[mythtv-users] Re: A warning about Samsung HDDs

[Steve Adeff]

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