clearly you don't know what you are saying, an ssd does draw less power than a traditional hard drive and the fact you can sit there and say that goes to show that you don't know squat, traditional hdd cant get close to using just 5watts like an ssd can, but hey go on ahead passing around false information
Aren't you a little ray of sunshine! And a wrong one, or, at least, wrong-headed to boot.
See, this is a case where the devil is in the details. The average SSD does, indeed, draw less power than the average HDD, but it also tends to draw that power all the time, regardless of what it is doing, whereas power consumption in a HDD very much depends on what it is doing, and it goes to damn near zero if the O/S spins it down when it hasn't been called on for several minutes. But setting that aside, let's take your claims at face value - an SSD draws 5W and this is "less than half" of an HDD. Okay, make the HDD 15W, so 10W of difference. Over the course of an hour that is 10 more Watt-hours of energy, and at a typical cost of $0.12 / 1000 Watt-hours that comes out to a little over a tenth of a cent per hour. If the SSD costs a mere $10 more than the HDD it will still take nearly a year of energy savings to pay the difference.
But you go on ahead and take your victory lap.
