Couple of days ago, Tom's Hardware ignite fire by publish a test aiming to compare power consumption of SSD vs. 2.5HD. Surprisingly, and against all claims published by HD manufacturers, Toms found that SSDs use more power than traditional notebook HD. Several readers and websites quickly question the test procedure used by Toms while pointing out to some serious flaws in testing. Toms Hardware ran a benchmark designed to keep the notebook active all time regardless of the performance level or amount of crunched data. As a result, the higher efficiency of SSDs was leading to slight higher power consumption. Indeed toms test did not take into account the fact that with such SSDs most task and/or request will be performed faster than from a traditional HD, so requiring less disk usage.
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