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Authored by: srcleaves on Jan 18, '02 08:38:59PM

Actually when playing music the drive isn't active all that much, it spins up to feed the buffer then spins down again until it is necessary to read more music data. The iPod gets it long battery life from the fact that the drive isn't in use very much. I would still hope that the drive has a reasonable ability to run without burning out, but I would also guess that when used in this fashion it could spin down when not in use? Does mounting it on the desktop prevent that? Doesn't seem like it should.



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