I'd be interesting to see if what the power consumption would be for disk spin up/spin down/savings compared to using flash. -----Original Message----- From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Chad Walstrom Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 11:39 AM To: TCLUG Mailing List Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Fedroa+laptop=Constant Hard drive activity Ben Neigebauer wrote: > I wonder if it would make any sense, or save power maybe to use a > PCMCIA flash card for logs and stuff. They are pretty cheap these days > and the industrial grade ones have 1million write cycles. This way the > hd can spin down even when those things keep going. IIRC, writing to flash cards is a pretty expensive operation WRT power consumption, relatively speaking. I don't know how it compares to harddrives. I know that when I try to erase a bunch of pictures on my camera, the battery gets drained rather quickly. For mass-erase operations, I usually plug in the AC adaptor if it's available. -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> http://www.wookimus.net/ assert(expired(knowledge)); /* core dump */ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list