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The article seems to contradict itself. Also, these are still pretty new, and their power efficiency (and prices, ahem) will no doubt improve over time.
by silentbicycle 18y ago
The article seems to contradict itself.
Also, these are still pretty new, and their power efficiency (and prices, ahem) will no doubt improve over time.
- ajross 18y agoAgreed. There's nothing inherently power-hungry about flash. It's read cycle looks a lot like DRAM's, but there is no refresh required and the quiescent power is zero (duh, I guess: that's what non-volatile means). A flash drive running full tilt and hitting all the cells as fast as possible is probably going to have power consumption about the same as a DRAM array of the same size and cycle time, so somewhere in the low-integer watts. If existing drives are consuming more than that at "idle", then it's pretty clearly a hardware bug that should be fixed.