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Swindled: Solid State Drives Don't Extend Battery Life, They Shorten It
Posted by Mark Wilson at 6:40 AM on July 2, 2008
Solid state drives (SSDs) are the inevitable future of mobile computing, but a new experiment by Tom's Hardware is extremely disappointing. It ends up that the touted power savings of SSDs over their moving-parts-laden cousins are nonexistent. In fact, SSDs are sucking more power than conventional hard drives. How is this possible? Tom's Hardware thinks they know.
