How is the power consumption of this hard drive on battery life?
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Here's a quick power comparison. You have to consider that the Black2 is literally two drives. The drives used in this comparison were: the 1tb Black2, a 750gb 720 RPM Black 2.5" mobile, a 1tb, 5400 rpm Blue 2.5" mobile, and 1 1.5tb 5400 rpm green 2.5" mobile hard drive. I did not include 3.5' desktop drives, only notebook drives. For those who do not know the differences, the Black is performance, the blue is "standard" and the green is efficient (and the least expensive.. It's tech.. you get what you pay for...) The 1TB Seagate "Hybrid" (SSD-Like called SSHD) Hybrid Drive lists its power consumption as: 1TB Seagate SSHD: Seek - 2.7 watts and idle - 0.90 watts, both higher power consumption than the WD competition, significantly more during active use by almost a full watt. (Nothing against Seagate. They make a fine hard drive. This is only a comparison) A Kingston KC300 wish is the more power efficient SSD model's power consumption is as follows: Read: 1.73 Watts, Write 2.49 watts and idle: 0.08 watts. For the WD / Western Digital Notebook Drives, the power consumption is as follows: (I hope this helps!) Read-Write Black2 - 1.80 watts Read Write Black - 1.75 watts Read Write Blue - 1.70 watts Read Write Green - 1.70 Idle Black2 - 0.90 watts Idle Black - 0.80 watts Idle Blue - 0.90 watts Idle Green - 0.80 watts Standby Black2 - 0.90 watts Standby Black - 0.20 watts Standby Blue - 0.18 watts Standby Green - 0.20 watts Sleep Black2 - 0.90 watts Sleep Black - 0.20 watts Sleep Blue - 0.18 watts Sleep Green - 0.20 watts
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Not exactly sure what you mean by this question..like useful life of the hard drive?
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3-5 hours of heavy use when I had it. Have since given the computer to my son who uses it.
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It could be better: I get about 4 hrs with intensive graphics use/video; 5-6 hrs if I'm just editing documents or surfing the web (no video). I leave it plugged in when I can.
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Yes. Powering the harddrive may be an issue if the harddrive requires power from a separate power plug (ie. other than the data connector plug).
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Replace the hdd with an ssd and it will be more than adequate for gaming on medium to low settings. I suggest only gaming while plugged into an outlet though as power draw will be high during gaming.
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Depends on what you're using it for. I get about three hours of use out of the battery. I modified it and bought a 120GB SSD drive and 4GB of RAM. Those upgrades made it super fast, and it does all the user basics with ease.
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To my knowledge, the larger ones (1TB +) seem to have external power. The smaller ones (less than 1TB) are just powered by USB. Those are the ones I have anyway.
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I can't give you any idea about battery life because I use this computer at my home desk, plugged in most of the time. But I can tell you I've been very happy with this purchase.
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My laptop has 1 GB Ram, 80 GB HDD and I get about 2 hours of battery life when fully charged.
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I haven't really counted an exact time but I'll say this: There was a two week period where I had it charged up, I went two weeks without charging again with 2-3 hours a week sitting basically idle in class and several hours of Netflix twice a week. It's plenty of battery from a full charge, especially compared to the stock one. It is absolutely adequate and well worth the money, you won't regret this one. I should add that I am on an HP Pavilion G6-1b60us with an AMD A4 and replacing the factory HDD with a Samsung 840 Evo SSD (so reduced power consumption over the stock HDD there, I'm sure, but not sure by how much)
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Sorry, had to return it because of a bad hard drive. So I didn't get to see how the battery life was under normal conditions.
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I usually get about 2 hours or less of intensive gaming out of it (Crysis 3 or heavily modded Skyrim on ultra settings, for example). With just web browsing or simple applications I get about 5 hours of continuous use. I can run one charge an entire day as a student by simply making it sleep when I'm not using it. The wake up time is only a couple seconds, but it only takes 5 seconds to boot up anyway so I usually just shut it down if I won't use it for a couple hours.
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Actually pretty dang impressive. It has bios based sleep rather than using hibernate. Shut the lid and go back a week later with some charge left. Constant use I get maybe five six hours, but I have it set to max performance as I am developing on it.
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I don't think so as it's not labeled as being that. If it does power down I haven't noticed it. Latency isn't really much of an issue any more - smaller disks spin up very quickly. Mine is doing a TimeMachine backup as I type. The drive is silent and the case is only slightly warm to the touch.
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I have had this battery for over a year now. It use to stay charged for approximately 2 hours under heavy use. One thing I have done lately that has actually extended the charge to 30 - 45 minutes longer, is replace the old hard drive with a solid state hard drive. This has also breathed new life into the laptop to make it like a new one again. It is twice as fast after I added the maximum RAM and solid state drive. Cheaper than buying a new laptop.
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Hi Mike, The battery average life is above average compared to other Laptops. The solid state hard drive adds to the life of the battery compared to a spinning disk. I must say the track pad is awkward and is a single surface and does have double click capabilities, however it's very problematic getting a double click. I have not manipulated the settings, but find that the track pad often gets stuck in a right click mode. I was forced to buy a wireless mouse because the track pad functionality is so poor. Hope this helps.