ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR REDUCING ENERGY CONSUMPTION OF STORAGE DEVICES

• Main Authors: LEE CHUNG-I, LI DA-PENG, LIN HAI-HONG
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 24.04.2014
• Subjects: CALCULATING; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN INFORMATION ANDCOMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES [ICT], I.E. INFORMATION ANDCOMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AIMING AT THE REDUCTION OF THIR OWNENERGY USE; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; PHYSICS; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS; TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINSTCLIMATE CHANGE

In a method for reducing energy consumption of storage devices in an electronic device, a directory index of files stored in the storage devices is established, and the storage devices are turned off after establishing the directory index. In response to receiving a user request for processing a tar...