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Rockbox VS Apple FW Battery Life

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scorche:
There have been some optimizations lately that have taken the runtime up a bit as well, so you might not be as bad off as listed in there.

alecjw:
Does rockbox shut off the HDD when it's not in use? I've noticed that with the iPod firmware, the hard drive whirrs for about 2 seconds, presumably filling up the less power-hundgry ram, then kills the hard drive. Does rockbox do this?

I would check myself, but I havn't got rockbox working yet.

Llorean:
Yes it does. There's even an option as to whether or not you want to keep providing idle power to the HD, or power it down completely when not in use.

L:
Is there a point to keep providing idle power to it then? I'm just curious

bascule:
Faster spin-up time is the only benefit, but if you've got Directory Cache and Tag Cache in memory, you are probably better served by switching the drive power completely off.

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