Re: Hard Drive battery consumption

[lusec001@xxxxxxxxxx]

> 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.

Thank you all guys for the quick response, all responses seems useful. My
next question in the topic is: is there an easy way to find the battery
information (remaining energy, consumption each hour) through a module?

Luis.


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