Hard drive spec change

Felix Miata mrmazda at earthlink.net
Thu Mar 11 01:33:16 UTC 2010


On 2010/03/10 20:19 (GMT-0500) Ric Wheeler composed:

> Peter Jones wrote:

>> Note also that the access time will be slightly faster.

As if an average normal person could tell.

> And power consumption will go down as you won't need as many platters :-)

Not materially for those whose needs are already down to less than one
platter. MultiGHz, Multicore CPUs consume magnitudes more power than HDs.
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