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I have a travel laptop with Kodi installed for watching movies. My laptop has 8GB of RAM. I was thinking about having Kodi load the entire movie from the HDD into RAM. Most of my movies are travel size, so under 2GB each. That way, the HDD will automatically shut off after 1 min and save battery.
Is this possible and if so, how could we do this?
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k4sh1n
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Sorry to say what you are after is not possible.
Loading an entire file into RAM does not save any battery (that is not the way in which RAM operates, even if you were able to do this energy would be required to keep each nand gate alive in its 0 or 1 state)
The HDD on a laptop will not switch off at least not with windows (additional services, commands, protocols, etc will need to be run during OS operation, polling may be reduced when idle, but essentially the HDD will not switch off, if medial is stored on a 2nd drive inside the laptop then it will spin down when idle/not off)
Possibly boot into a USB with openelec which has less overheads than the windows OS if your just using it to play files with KODI, should make the battery last a bit longer, alternatively go to windows power settings/modify and also turn off as much unneeded H/W as possible (wifi, bluetooth, etc).
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My macbook can spindown the main HDD while running Kodi..
* Ned Scott ducks and runs away
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Modern laptop hard drives consume very little power when not working actively. I would not worry too much about it. In Kodi use hardware acceleration and DXVA render method with DXVA scaling; this will use the least battery.
You can also change to an SSD but beware that many use actually more idle power than a HD.