Re: Hard Drive battery consumption

["Nikolay N. Ivanov" <nn@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Luis!

It's really interesting question...

I'm not familiar ..., but I know one (maybe stupid) way to evaluate hdd's power
consumption. You may insert amperemeter between hard drive and battery. I think
that is quite safety.

But I think also that culprit of hdd's power consumption is spindle with
constant speed.

> Hi Guys,
> 
> I am currently developing a project which tries to minimize the
> consumption of battery in laptops avoiding as much as possible the use of
> the hard drive. To evaluate if our implementation is doing well, we need
> to know how is the consumption of energy in the laptop or even better how
> much power consumes the hard drive in a period of time.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 

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Nikolay N. Ivanov

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