That may be due to other factors. I will be up front that I don’t have a lot of specifics, but I do know this: in retro computing, SD is hard to implement as a replacement for old-school disks because it means a lot of overhead. For that reason, Compact Flash is still the preferred format for a lot of products aimed at that space.
Perhaps that is at play here, because increased overhead should also equal a reduction in battery life (modulo the spinning disk).
Welt@lazysoci.al 5 months ago
Wow, that’s really surprising, you’d think a spinning platter would draw more power than solid state transistors
evidences@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s kind of surprising but not super surprising if you’ve ever seen the stock drive in them. The hard drives in the classic are tiny, 1.8inch 4200rpm units. Power draw on the drive case is half an amp at 3.3v. SSDs are like 5 watts plus whatever circuitry you need to convert the interfaces.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Bought an as-is lot of those via eBay.
Tested and verified broken before being sold “as-is”, I’m sure.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 5 months ago
If I recall correctly, it was a special made spindle that could handle many spin ups and downs, and they used a massive 10 minute buffer so it loads up the buffer and spins down.