• Welt@lazysoci.al
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    7 months ago

    Wow, that’s really surprising, you’d think a spinning platter would draw more power than solid state transistors

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      7 months ago

      It’s kind of surprising but not super surprising if you’ve ever seen the stock drive in them. The hard drives in the classic are tiny, 1.8inch 4200rpm units. Power draw on the drive case is half an amp at 3.3v. SSDs are like 5 watts plus whatever circuitry you need to convert the interfaces.

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      7 months ago

      If I recall correctly, it was a special made spindle that could handle many spin ups and downs, and they used a massive 10 minute buffer so it loads up the buffer and spins down.