Comment by reedf1
6 months ago
My understanding is that SSDs are in the sub-watt territory when idle. So ironically the act of deleting the email instead of keeping the drive in steady-state will likely use significantly more power.
6 months ago
My understanding is that SSDs are in the sub-watt territory when idle. So ironically the act of deleting the email instead of keeping the drive in steady-state will likely use significantly more power.
Consumer SSDs idle at very low power, but SSDs intended for data centers generally idle at several watts.
How often do you think a device is idle in a data center? My guess is not very often if ever.
Often, in a system with a large number of drives where actively-used data and cold data are automatically migrated to active and mostly-idle drives respectively.