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Re:SSD Storage: 2018 in review by glitchc on Monday January 14, 2019 @09:12PM (#18908355)
SSDs consume more, not less power, to comparable spinning HDs, especially in always-on scenarios. Once started, the amount of power required to keep a platter spinning is miniscule.
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Re:SSD Storage: 2018 in review by bufferoverflow on Monday January 14, 2019 @10:16PM (#18908617)
I don't think that's true

https://techreport.com/r.x/wd-red-4tb/power-idle.gif

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Re:SSD Storage: 2018 in review by imtringued on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @04:33AM (#18909910)
Those HDDs have more than 10 times more capacity. This means you need more than 10 times as many SSDs. Even with the most efficient 0.5W SSD that means all 10 of them would consume 5W which HDDs still manage to beat. In reality that 0.5W SSD is an outlier and they consume 1W so in truth the power consumption is closer to 10W for the same amount of storage. That's above the least efficient HDD. Perhaps bigger SSDs enjoy similar "economies of scale" but what you linked tells a completely different story.
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Re:SSD Storage: 2018 in review by bufferoverflow on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @06:46AM (#18910477)
No. Actually the image I posted before is outdated. Modern 1TB/2TB SSDs consume a lot less. Milliwatts.

https://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph9451/75923.png

Full article:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/9451/the-2tb-samsung-850-pro-...

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