[Tfug] battery life, power management and windows vs linux

[Stephen Hooper]

On 3/22/07, t takahashi <gambarimasu at gmail.com> wrote:
> does windows use atime?

The only possible thing I can think you mean is "file access time".

The only possible reason I can think you are asking this question is
because you think it writes less to disk...  but you seem to have
failed to ask yourself if once the drive is spinning if the power
consumption be significantly the same?

The only way I could suggest that writing atimes would slow down your
power consumption level to any radical extent would be if you weren't
writing to disk at all... in which case writing atimes seems to be a
little bit of a no brainer.

Sorry to digress so much, but  to answer your question... yes.  The
caveat to me giving you that answer is "Google".  It was first page
material after typing in "Windows file access time".