The SSD Power Consumption Hoax

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The SSD Power Consumption Hoax

June 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Flash-based solid state drives (SSDs) are considered to be the future of performance hard drives, and everyone seems to be jumping on the bandwagon. Manufacturers tout the power savings of flash-based SSDs compared to conventional hard drives. True? Tom’s Hardware found that he power savings aren’t there: in fact, battery runtimes actually decrease if you use a flash SSD.

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