Thread: A maemo-ized UMPC
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Milhouse is offline Milhouse
2007-02-06 , 21:14
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#16
Originally Posted by Hedgecore View Post
I'd be all for a harddrive in the N900... just make sure the OS boots off of internal memory and that the HDD is smart enough to stop spinning when not in use. Perfect for saving juice when need be.
From what I've read over the years, HDDs use the most power when spinning up in which case the constant stop/starts that could result from powering down the HDD as often as possible may counter intuitively run down the battery faster than if it were left spinning longer to reduce spin up events.

Flash memory all the way... it's the future!