Do Solid State Drives (SSD) Use More Power?
By Jeffrey | July 2, 2008
Tom’s Hardware is running a story discussing whether the increased battery-life and lower power-consumption claims of solid state disks are valid. Turns out they don’t? How is that possible?
The results of our testing are a shock for anyone who cares about battery runtime, as our results prove unmistakably that battery runtimes do not increase when using flash based SSDs. As a matter of fact, most flash SSD products actually contribute to emptying your battery even faster! Mainstream flash SSDs — if they can even be called “mainstream†at prices of $500 and up — do not even provide convincing performance while they help to suck your battery empty quicker than before.
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