On 17/12/2020 01:47, bob prohaska wrote:
> Last I checked SSDs were a little worse for power consumption, but
> that was months ago and I don't know where the trend is going.

That struck me as odd, so I googled.

The balance of opinion is exactly the reverse. SSD uses up to 5 times
*less* power?

This spec
https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library/en_us/assets/publi
c/western-digital/product/internal-drives/wd-blue-ssd/data-sheet-wd-blue-3d-nan
d-sata-
ssd-2879-800092.pdf?_ga=2.57708201.28239759.1543588356-1527752628.1543588356

gives operational power on a SSD of ~3-4 watts and idle power 56mw. In
most applications due to the high read and write speed the operational
times will be very short.

https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library/en_us/assets/publi
c/western-digital/product/internal-drives/wd-black-hdd/data-sheet-wd-black-pc-h
ard-drives-2879-771434.pdf?_ga=2.57708201.28239759.1543588356-1527752628.154358
8356

shows far higher figures for read write and idle...

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