Thanks. Yes power consumption is important, so I’ll keep that in mind!
Is there a specific term I should look for, or simply “power management”?
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Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
one thing to consider is that some cheap SSDs don’t have power management, so they’ll consume way more power than others at idle.
For a server setup that’s always running you should consider if the slightly lower cost is worth the cost of electricity
Imhotep@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
if this is a sata drive “SATA link power management” might work?
ik tomshardware reviews of SSDs have information on power consumption
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
At idle, SSD is usually better (like you said if the SSD has proper power management, and that takes research to know).
Spinning platters are generally still better for power per gig/terabyte, because write time they consume less power than SSD.
I dont really look at drive power consumption, because even with ~10 drives running in my environment, a single cpu doing anything moderate blows away their power consumption numbers (I’ve tested, not that it was needed, heat dissipation alone makes it clear).
I have a ten-year old 5 drive NAS that runs 24/7, and it’s barely above room temp. Average draw is a few watts (the number was so low I put it out of my mind, maybe 5 watts - Raspberry Pi territory).
My SFF desktop is 12w at idle, with either 2 small SSDs (500GB each) or a single large drive (12TB). So much for SSD having better idle power.