Nate Duehr wrote:
Russell L. Harris wrote:
The situation is not simple.
You also missed that most laptops now have an accelerometer in them for
shock protection and the drive is parked every time certain acceleration
forces are happening to the laptop.
Just carrying mine across the room (IBM T43) is enough to stop drive
activity temporarily unless I use their "ignore small repetitive shocks"
setting.
Nate
This may be true for WinJunk OS, but not for Linux yet unless you one
has some sw in development phase.
My thinkpads are/were almost always connected but often placed in
suspend>mem. Why would anyone want to spend $ for waste electrons
unless you really need to keep warm.
It is like leaving your car running all day (although perhaps a good
idea to get a gadget to use the car as a generator for frige during a
power outage which I recently had).
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