The SSD Power Consumption Hoax
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Page 1:Flash SSDs Don’t Improve Your Notebook Battery Runtime – they Reduce It
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Page 2:How Can Battery Runtime Be Shorter?
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Page 3:More Issues with Ultra-Compact Form Factors Expected
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Page 4:Flash SSDs Tested
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Page 5:Memoright MR25.5-032S, 32 GB
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Page 6:Sandisk SSD 5000, 32 GB
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Page 7:Test Setup
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Page 8:Benchmarks Results
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Page 9:Benchmark Results, Continued
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Page 10:Benchmark Results, Continued
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Page 11:I/O Performance Results
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Page 12:Mobilemark Results
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Page 13:Performance x Battery Runtime Index
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Page 14:Power Consumption Results
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Page 15:Conclusion
I/O Performance Results
I/O Performance
Memoright and Mtron dominate all of the I/O benchmark results. Sandisk’s Flash SSD and the Crucial SSD have a hard time competing against the Travelstar 7K200 as soon as larger blocks of data are requested.
Summary
- Flash SSDs Don’t Improve Your Notebook Battery Runtime – they Reduce It
- How Can Battery Runtime Be Shorter?
- More Issues with Ultra-Compact Form Factors Expected
- Flash SSDs Tested
- Memoright MR25.5-032S, 32 GB
- Sandisk SSD 5000, 32 GB
- Test Setup
- Benchmarks Results
- Benchmark Results, Continued
- Benchmark Results, Continued
- I/O Performance Results
- Mobilemark Results
- Performance x Battery Runtime Index
- Power Consumption Results
- Conclusion
