I thought the average power consumption of laptop drives was about 2-3W...Removing them from the equation completely would probably save you a maximum of about 10 minutes for most laptops...
The logic actually comes from the OS in the form of new T13 (extension of SATA) commands. This puts a dependency on the OS. Other OS's will not work with these drives unless they implement these commands.
Yes, reducing the power consumption of of a drive is a small portion of the overall platform power, the fact that a workload can finish sooner when reading/writing to/from faster memory (NAND in this case) allows the entire system to be idle longer, thus saving substantially more than just disk power.
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I thought the average power consumption of laptop drives was about 2-3W...Removing them from the equation completely would probably save you a maximum of about 10 minutes for most laptops...
The logic actually comes from the OS in the form of new T13 (extension of SATA) commands. This puts a dependency on the OS. Other OS's will not work with these drives unless they implement these commands.
Yes, reducing the power consumption of of a drive is a small portion of the overall platform power, the fact that a workload can finish sooner when reading/writing to/from faster memory (NAND in this case) allows the entire system to be idle longer, thus saving substantially more than just disk power.