Re: TI-H: ide hd stuff

Re: TI-H: ide hd stuff

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• Subject: Re: TI-H: ide hd stuff
• From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
• Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 17:27:20 -0800 (AKDT)
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>>>You forget that the spinup current on a typical desktop 80MB hard
>>>drive can be in the 3+ amp range and operational power usage can be
>>>over 10 watts (for all you kiddies out there, that means it would EAT
>>>batteries like candy)...  It's useless unless you were carrying around
>>>a car battery and it would be totally impractical to use.  Even
>>>bryan's POS E2 can get 15 operational hours on a 9V batt.
>>
>>A Caviar 280 WD drive only yses .2A on 5 volts and .4A on 12 volts...  :)
>>I can handle the high startup power anyway...  :)
>
>Uhh, grant :)...  That's 5 watts right there, at like 10% possible
>access speed...  Go faster and you could break 20 watts.

Lets see a calc break a 1/500th of PIO 0...  ;)

• Re: TI-H: ide hd stuff
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• From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
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• From: tsaimelv@pilot.msu.edu (Mel Tsai)

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