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.
Comment on iPod with custom shell, new screen, 512gb SSD, and a 30 day battery
Welt@lazysoci.al 2 months agoWow, that’s really surprising, you’d think a spinning platter would draw more power than solid state transistors
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 months ago
evidences@lemmy.world 2 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 2 months ago
Bought an as-is lot of those via eBay.
Tested and verified broken before being sold “as-is”, I’m sure.