Disk Drive use?

[nrm]

Does anyone know of a program to show when the disk drive is being used?
I would like to optimize battery use by minimizing disk access.

For example, I have TCPMP installed on the disk drive. When I watch a movie, is the program transferred ENTIRELY to solid-state memory or does the X7500 have to access the disk continuously to run the program?

I have the movie installed on the SD card to avoid disk drive use, but I cannot tell if that eliminates all disk drive use once TCPMP has started.

[mackaby007]

Does anyone know of a program to show when the disk drive is being used?
I would like to optimize battery use by minimizing disk access.

For example, I have TCPMP installed on the disk drive. When I watch a movie, is the program transferred ENTIRELY to solid-state memory or does the X7500 have to access the disk continuously to run the program?

I have the movie installed on the SD card to avoid disk drive use, but I cannot tell if that eliminates all disk drive use once TCPMP has started.

I would have thought if its installed to the MD (Micro Drive) then when accessed, it will be in constant use for as long as you are using that app, but I can't be sure, as your vid is on the SD card. LoL most of us do it the other way around.

In any event, No, sorry, don't know of an app that shows its usage in this way.

[irus]

i would put the movie on the MD so its only running when u r watching it

[nrm]

It's hard for me to believe that any half-decent engineer would design a battey operated device to run a program off a disk drive. Here is what I found:

Without TCPMP runnig:
Storage.................Program
Total 144.04..........Total 110.94
In use 69.27..........In use 48.05
FREE 74.77............FREE 62.89

With TCPMP running:
Storage................Program
Total 144.04.........Total 110.94
In use 69.27........In use 71.84
FREE 74.77...........FREE 39.10

This means that "in use" PROGRAM memory is increased by about 22MB when TCPMP is loaded, which I HOPE means that the program is running in Solid-state memory, not from the disk drive. HOWEVER, it could also mean that the movie has been transferred from the storage card in slices. This would make no sense from a design aspect but it could happen.

Any ideas?

Does anyone think that HTC would be willing to share the design detail of disk usage?