The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> 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...
>

Absolutely correct and at present all servers I have seen use SSD 4 or 6
even some 8TB disks (like backup servers for example). I did check - those
disks/models are not available on the consumer market (unfortunately).

At the end new technologies will win the game and in couple of years we'll
be talking the same, but may be about SSD and NVMe or NVMe or whatever
comes next.

As of my experience and a long research some years ago I use at home only
WDC WD10EFRX-68xxxxx and WDC WD20EFRX-68xxxxx. The proved to be really
good, I would say excellent.
Some years ago when thinking of replacing some older disk I did a research
on the 3, 4 and 6TB versions of same model - only negative experience and
issues, so I preferred to stick to the two mentioned above.

I find this discussion extremely interesting. Thank you all

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