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About LinkBacksRead more.OCZ Technology has announced its Core Series solid-state drives, and they're the cheapest we've seen so far.
Read more.OCZ Technology has announced its Core Series solid-state drives, and they're the cheapest we've seen so far.
My money's on them lying (whether intentionally or unintentionally) about the power consumption.
SSD Power consumption a hoax
The question is why do these manufacturers make these stupid claims without even checking to see if they are true?
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Theres a bit of a storm brewing over that article. A few people have cited errors on p12-13. To quote MirekCzOriginally Posted by badass
"So yes, your flash based laptop will go out of energy sooner... but it will do over 2x the work of an hdd based laptop in the meantime.
The actual shorter life of flash based laptop comes to higher energy usage of the rest of the system that isn't stalled all the time by hdd access time. "
so its all swings and roundabouts it seems
The difference seems marginal anyway and if all programs feel a lot sharper with the SSD then I'd happily trade a bit of battery life, whether it's true or not.
I'll be getting a laptop for uni soon and if I can get a decent 32GiB SSD for under £100 then I'll be very tempted. Should be able to get by with 32GiB with a 500GiB external hard drive for storage.
If you think that drive will be £250 you're having a giraffe!
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A valid point. Maybe the test would be fairer if they benchmarked them playing movies off the HDD?Theres a bit of a storm brewing over that article. A few people have cited errors on p12-13. To quote MirekCz
"So yes, your flash based laptop will go out of energy sooner... but it will do over 2x the work of an hdd based laptop in the meantime.
The actual shorter life of flash based laptop comes to higher energy usage of the rest of the system that isn't stalled all the time by hdd access time. "
so its all swings and roundabouts it seems
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