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SSD hard drives tank laptop battery life {Hack a Day}
Jul 2nd 2008 7:45AM In a laptop the backlight and CPU are bigger power sinks than the disk, so even if a SSD drew less power than a conventional one, this wouldn't be that helpful at prolonging battery life. C'mon Hackaday - let's see some low-power LCD backlight replacement projects!
Fujitsu's Lifebook Q and B laptops get 32GB SSD {Engadget}
Oct 13th 2006 9:21AM The speedup vs. a hard disk is nice, but the power savings is unfortunately minor compared to how much the CPU and backlight use. The gap narrows further if you have a power management scheme to your hard drive that is optimized for your usage. I was intrigued by this idea a while back but dropped it when I saw the power numbers.
