On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 16:48 +0100, Mildred Ki'Lya wrote: > I noticed something strange in the gnome-power-manager FAQ > <http://live.gnome.org/GnomePowerManager/FAQ>. I see in the question > “GNOME Power Manager doesn't spin down my hard-drive!” the answer: > > A disk on Low Power idle need less than 1 Watt per hour. For a normal > battery with 50000mWh you could run the harddisk for over 50 hours. > > But, what is a “Watt per hour”. I guess the unit would be [W/h] ... > Since the Power (in Watts) is defined as an amount of energy consumed > during a period of time (1W = 1J/s), it implies that the hard dirk > consumes something like 1/3600 J/s² ... I would define this as an > acceleration of a consumption of energy. Really strange. > It the corresponding unit is [W.h] it just represent a finite a > > I guess that if a 50Wh battery is powering the hard disk for 50 hours, > and if the hard disk always consumes the same amount of power, I would > guess that the hard disk consumes 1 Watt, not 1 Watt per hour. Am I > correct ? Hi, It's probably a better idea to raise this on the gnome-power-manager list. See http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-power-manager-list -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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