Swapped drive on new Al Macbook. Something strange happened.

[richorlin]

Just swapped the stock drive with a Seagate Momentus 7200.3 G-force 320gb drive and my battery indicator lost well over an hour. I know that the 7200 drive will draw more power than the stock 5400 but I didn't think it would go down that much. I'm going to calibrate the battery and see if that changes things. If not, the original drive goes back in the Macbook.

[space-time]

how long did it last before, how long does it show now?

[richorlin]

It would show three and a half to four hours and now it shows two to two and a half.
I'll post what it is after the calibration.

[anonymouse1]

Is OS X indexing the new drive? That would draw a lot of power....

[mattkime]

anonymouse1 wrote:
Is OS X indexing the new drive? That would draw a lot of power....

thats what i'd put my money on

[richorlin]

I checked and it's not indexing. The drive is a clone of the original drive, which was already indexed.
Calibration will take overnight. I will post results in the A.M.

[richorlin]

Now it's back to normal. Shows 5 hours on a full charge
Very weird.