[CUBE] Power Consumption

[Gnarlodious]

Entity brad.macmonagle at philips.com spoke thus:

> Interesting, more power is consumed with the disk off than when spinning
> under LCD Bright conditions?
> 
> Disk spinning: LCD bright:                 52-55
> Disk idle: LCD bright:                     55-60
> 
> I agree, brilliant bit of engineering.
Strange, I guess the point of disk idling is to reduce noise rather than to
conserve power.
Maybe that's why X doesn't have "Spin Down Disk" like 9.

Hope that makes sense . . .

-- Rachel 
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