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At 03:22 PM 12/19/95 -0500, you wrote: > >>if you will remember in our compressor room by the door there is a little >>white laptop leaning against the wall... after using it for about eight >>months on the boats for double checking our scheduling it went funky on us. > >>we then used it for a prop for some underwater "high tech" shots :-) > >>i think the newer hard drives are more stable tho, we've used three other >>units since and havent had trouble with either, we keep them in a pelican >>box and keep the cover closed as much as possible. > >Newer hard disks are better, but..... > >Why not set your laptop so that it powers down the hard disk as fast >as possible - when running a single program, there's no need to access >the hard disk unless you need to load data/etc that's not in memory >currently... so, keeping the disk spun down seems to be the best >idea, right??? > >-Carl- > Carl, In terms of ruggedness and low power consumption, the solid state disks from Intel or SunDisk are probably the way to go. They are now up to 40+ meg, and the prices are going down (latest I heard was around $100 for a 10meg unit in quantities to manufacturers. Most notebooks now come with PCMCIA slots that will take these solid state disks. John
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