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The SSD Power Consumption Hoax

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. Tom's Hardware is no exception, as they 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, they have discovered that the power savings aren't there: in fact, battery runtimes actually decrease if you use a flash SSD.
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Published: 493 days 13 hours ago | Article | PC | Tech
 
 
 

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