[Empeg-general] Re: RAM

[Paul Wayper]

Another question about more RAM:

Is there any indication that constantly activating and deactivating a hard disk increases its wear?  An extra strain on the motors or spindles due to torque?  Not that I expect that there's much danger at the moment, but in the interests of curiosity...

As to the playlist write, this mechanism of last-minute writing as power goes down seems to work very well at the moment.  How much extra information could be written in the time available?  For instance, if I wanted to write an application which would keep a track of transition ratings (see the wish list), would it too be able to write its table out to disk at power-fail?  Or is there not enough time to write to two files?  I can see this being a big issue for people writing other applications on the empeg...

We'll wait with bated breath for the new drives :-)

Paul

> Save the whales.  Feed the hungry.  Free the mallocs.