Are SSDs Really More Power Efficient?

Bakasama writes "Tom's Hardware compared the power performance of several available SSD cards with a Rotating HDD that was chosen specifically for its poor power efficiency. The results seem to fly in the face of current wisdom. '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. We are no exception, as we have been publishing many articles on flash-based SSDs during the last few months, emphasizing the performance gains and the potential power savings brought by flash memory. And there is nothing wrong with this, since SLC flash SSDs easily outperform conventional hard drives today (SLC = single level cell). However, we have discovered that the power savings aren't there: in fact, battery runtimes actually decrease if you use a flash SSD.'"

Comments

Yes, SSDs are more efficient

[damburger]

If you want to kill everyone on a particular planet, vapourising its surface is way more efficient than trying to blow apart the planet.

Re:More power but only while being hammered?

[morgan_greywolf]

Shouldn't you guys stop answering questions with a question?

Re:More power but only while being hammered?

[thePowerOfGrayskull]

Why do that?

Re:Obviously that cannot be!

[Anonymous Coward]

If I was Control your stocks would've already tanked

If you were Control your stocks would've already tanked

Neither of our stocks have tanked, so obviously I'm not from Control

Re:Obviously that cannot be!

[Kuvter]

"Dear", I don't think that word means what you think it means.