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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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Cc: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
Subject: Re: you're not going to believe this.
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On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:59:44 -0500, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> wrote:
> We are already there. SSDs are not slower than mechanical disk drives,
> they are faster. The only detriments are 1) cost, 2) limited write life.

What about power consumption? Because they seem to be
primarily intended for portable devices, it should be
better than "tradidional hard disks", but as I read,
it's worse (less efficient, because higher current
drain).



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