On 12/24/2010 07:03 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > 2010/12/24 JÃrn Nettingsmeier <nettings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> the drive is a lot faster and will reach its expected lifetime, hopefully. > > Is it? In what way? Something like hdparm -tT or something else? sorry, no. sloppy wording. it reacts faster to intermittent requests, because the heads are already flying and don't have to be un-parked. throughput is of course the same. > Reaching its lifetime would be a good thing. >> no. under linux, power consumption will actually go down, since the >> constant head parking and unparking is avoided. if you implement laptop >> mode with very large dirty buffers, you might actually reach a point >> where there's actual benefit to this "green" feature, but i have a very >> strong suspicion it's just a stupid greenwashing feature they came up >> with (without expecting much themselves), because marketing wanted it. >> > > I think that really depends on how long it's left asleep. At this 2 > minute rate I'm seeing I suspect it lowers power to put it to sleep > but I don't know. probably. but i guess you are already using "laptop mode with longer sync times. i'm sure i saw it wake up and park more often, a few times per minute iirc. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
