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Originally Posted by FanIn80
Awesome thanks!
Now I have a question about heat... do SSDs burn hotter than normal drives? I noticed my laptop was getting a lot warmer than usual today. Also, is there a fan speed control app for Windows that is similar to SMCFanControl for the Mac OS?
Edit: Hmm... found this: " Reduced heat dissipation Hard drives dissipate high levels of failure-inducing heat due to the parts necessary to operate the hard drive (such as the spinning platter). In contrast, SSDs produce little-to-no measurable heat because they have no moving parts, thus helping keep notebooks operating cooler." Here: http://www.crucial.com/promo/index.aspx?prog=ssd |
Power dissipation is lower, particularly at idle, but not by as much as you'd expect. In use, current SSD's are fairly close to mechanical hard drives in power consumption - which is a testament to how good mechanical hard drives have gotten really - it's mind blowing that you can run a laptop hard drive on as little as 2 watts give or take, and down below 1 watt when the drive is spinning but idle.
One thing I did notice on my SSD, is that it doesn't have a temperature monitor. Most hard drives can tell you via SMART or other means what temperature they are operating at - my SSD always reports 0