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Nice improvement, soon there will be no need to turn off any computer.
Which will result in an instant on system.
New Power-Saving DevSleep Feature Added To SATA Specification
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It doesn't matter if something is completely off or on as far as start up goes. Power travels so fast that it would slow the process down by a millisecond at best.
It is devices that require mechanical components to come up to speed like a standard HDD spinning up etc. Once everything becomes solid state and software load times come way down as seen with win8 you will see instant on devices. If you had a laptop with an SSD and win8 it would come pretty close to being instant on right now.
The advantage of this as a power saving option to simply allow constant on devices is spectacular though. Power cycling electronics can be harsh in certain climates and allowing them to run constant would be a great thing indeed. But for the rest of us we see a bigger advantage in being able to utilize a device while away or save power to prolong battery life or save money.
Either way many benefits and almost no cons to speak of.
New Power-Saving DevSleep Feature Added To SATA Specification
Posted: 06 Jan 2012
Read more at:More power is a good thing when you’re talking desktops, but for notebooks, more power means less battery life – and in this age of Ultrabooks and ultraportables, that just isn’t acceptable to a lot of manufacturers. In yet another step towards making those Ultrabooks ultra long lasting, the SATA-IO organization announced a new feature yesterday: SATA DevSleep. Basically, DevSleep lets PHY and other circuitry drop into an almost completely powerless state – rather than a still power-consuming “Partial” or “Slumber” state – when it isn’t being used.
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