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

[Michael T. Dean]

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