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

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