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Originally Posted by
nywytboy68 
That I personally can't answer,...but Rockbox tends to add battery life to iPods and other portables (well, my clip+). I don't think you'll suffer for it.
as my unit currently stands, with rockbox I get +14hrs with lossless on a full charge, which is quite enough for me personally.
if it stays the same with the larger HDD I'm inclined to keep the battery as is. and it might even improve, as I have read that the new toshiba drives are more power efficient...
.though the unkown is whether more (overall allocated data space, not necessarily used) data on HDD results in more search spin, resulting in more power usage...or is the opposite true, by having HDD with more empty space allow less actual area covered with drive head (as in if ther HDD is half full, and if the data writing is generally linear, than say the drive will mostly concentrate data either on the outer side or inner, depending on how it stores, and correspondingly the drive head will concentrate its movement only in half the area of the disk)
...does that make sense?? or should I start on a science fiction novel while I'm on a roll here?? 
