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What load are these drives under? Is that just idle consumption, or constantly actively reading/writing?
by voidUpdate 1y ago
What load are these drives under? Is that just idle consumption, or constantly actively reading/writing?
- bmenrigh 1y agoThey only estimated “embodied carbon” which is all the carbon used to make the thing. They conveniently ignore the “operational carbon” to use them which is going to be way higher than SSD / NVME. They’re way slower which keeps the rest of the computer waiting and using power for much longer.
- voidUpdate 1y agoThe third column of the table is CO2/TB/Year, doesn't that mean how much they use per year, which would depend on how they're being used?
- bmenrigh 1y agoNo, they just assume drives last 5 years so they divide the carbon by 5.
- user32489318 1y agoThey also failed to adjust for expected lifetime of a product.
- bmenrigh 1y agoYeah “manufacturing carbon per TB” has got to be one of the most creative units I’ve seen used in corporate marketing bullshit.