Hi, I noticed something strange in the gnome-power-manager FAQ <http://live.gnome.org/GnomePowerManager/FAQ>. I see in the question “GNOME Power Manager doesn't spin down my hard-drive!” the answer: A disk on Low Power idle need less than 1 Watt per hour. For a normal battery with 50000mWh you could run the harddisk for over 50 hours. But, what is a “Watt per hour”. I guess the unit would be [W/h] ... Since the Power (in Watts) is defined as an amount of energy consumed during a period of time (1W = 1J/s), it implies that the hard dirk consumes something like 1/3600 J/s² ... I would define this as an acceleration of a consumption of energy. Really strange. It the corresponding unit is [W.h] it just represent a finite a I guess that if a 50Wh battery is powering the hard disk for 50 hours, and if the hard disk always consumes the same amount of power, I would guess that the hard disk consumes 1 Watt, not 1 Watt per hour. Am I correct ? Mildred -- Mildred Ki'Lya ╭───────── ｍｉｌｄｒｅｄ５９３＠ｏｎｌｉｎｅ．ｆｒ ────────── │ Jabber, GoogleTalk: <mildred jabber fr> │ Site: <http://ki.lya.online.fr> GPG ID: 9A7D 2E2B │ Fingerprint: 197C A7E6 645B 4299 6D37 684B 6F9D A8D6 9A7D 2E2B
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