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Enhanced Adaptive Battery Life Extender

Overview In mobile computing and other power sensitive applications, especially notebooks and handheld consumer electronics products, battery life is a critical concern. Since the disk drive is one of the main power consuming components, Hitachi sought to devise methods to enhance the power efficiency of its products. Research in this area resulted in the invention of Adaptive Battery Life Extender, (ABLE) in 1995. ABLE is a power efficiency tool which maps the power consumption by the drive to specified drive usage parameters based on options input by the host system integrator. ABLE allows the system integrator to simply select the desired usage parameters, and the Hitachi drive does the rest.

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Publisher	Hitachi	File Format	PDF
Date Published	May 2005	Downloads	6
Format	White Papers
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