Should You Care About Hybrid Hard Drives?

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Energy Consumption

The most efficient 5,400 RPM 2.5" hard drives require 0.5 W in idle and only 2.2 W when active. The HM16HJI requires 0.7 W of idle power, which is close to the 0.8 W of its conventional brother HM160JI. But its activity power of 3.1 W is clearly above the 2.6 W maximum activity power requirement of the non-Flash hard drive.

Patrick Schmid
Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.

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  • dmoz
    > but I would not pay any premium today to get an H-HDD today.

    Department of Redundancies Department, how can I help you?
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