Recent content by TheSpoon

I don't know if you can discredit it being a windows issue also. The power drop might have happened during a HD write of some windows info. I know you said you ghosted the drive, but that might have just brought over the issue also.

I went with "Word of Mouth" as it was IVB's postings. I don't remember if my actual click would have been from AVS or CQC though.

Wouldn't this be the EXACT reason they would want home automation? :unsure: **EDIT** Just reread the post. When you say "what the hell makes you think you have any business adding home automation to your house" you mean the DIY version of adding it... not having someone add it. Your...

Eco-driving or the more "advanced" hypermiling isn't just about going slow. Some things that are done can be a little illegal. Trailing close to a semi or other large vehicle, shifting to neutral, over inflating your tires, avoiding stops (or rolling through stop signs), timing traffic lights...

I believe AHCI just allows more advance features such as hot-swapping of drives. The difference between the drives you listed and the 500GB green drives are 3W during read/write and 5W during idle. That's quite a difference if they sit idle most of the time. It's been awhile since I've used...