In Car PC's boot Time / Disks

[ikonia]

Hello all.

I'll probably ask this same question in the digital Car forum, but thought I'd also sound out other people.

How do people cope with booting/storage in their PC's in the car ?

eg: say you get in the car to go for a 5 minute drive do you bother to boot ?
do you boot from a harddisk ? or from a solid state flash rom ?

Do you shut down before powering off ?

How do you find your hard disk life span with the juddering of the car ? does data skip when in use ?



Lots of queries

[six5tring]

I don't have an in car pc but will make in educated guess for you :)

1) most people use a hard drive.. you power it up when you want to use the PC.. so probably wouldn't bother for 5 min!
2) From what I understand you use auto shutdowns to just run off the battery for the short time it takes to shutdown
3) Harddrives can take some battering these days :)

Sure davemark or someone will be able to help further!

six

[DaveMark]

Hey iknonia

As far as i know no one i know who has a car PC ever boots (apart from first time and if it goes wrong) .. we use s3 standby the way it works is you get a special in car psu eg the opus or the M1 and this connects to

Battery +
Battery -
Ignition

and what this does is when you crank your car its like you are pressing your power button on the PC so what ever you have set in windows (standby,shutdown or hibernation) will happen ... i have mine set to go into standby so when i kill my engine it goes into standby when i turn car back on it comes out of standby and carries on with what it was last doing. so no waiting for boot up time (about 5 seconds)

and most people say leaving a car in standby wile engine ain't on will kill battery .. the answer is if your battery is a good battery it should be fine (exspecialy with the s3 standby , only ram is powered) .

As for hard drives i know people who are using normal desktop hard drives in cars and they are fine, i would try to steer clear of maxtors tho i find they don't like cars ... i my self has used a laptop drive this time .. but honest truth you can use both.

Hope this helped and i did not drown on.

DaveMark

[rusty]

i use laptop drives as well... had no end of bother with desktop drives. but some peeps get on fine with them.

as for booting, my comp is up and playing music within 3 secs and screen is on within 5 secs - using the s3 standby dave mentioned.

[DaveMark]

aint it great rusty :)

Dave