On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Michael Watterson wrote= : > Does in fact a GOOD SSD save power? Possibly not compared to some laptop > HDDs. > I had never had SSD internal drive, so I have no experience whatsoever, it was just a thought that a HDD operates a BLDC constantly, while an SSD does not. An idle should be therefore much less for the SSD (in my thoughts), an= d only consumes a bit more than the idle when writing and maybe when reading. Also some blogs are saying this theory (actually they have data on it) and claiming that an SSD consumes less than an equivalent HDD: http://itexpertvoice.com/home/switch-from-a-hard-disk-to-an-ssd-with-little= -fuss-and-bother/ http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/windows-7-ssd-trim,2705-19.html But anyway, for me all parameters seems to be very good, and one of my colleague uses SSD on his MacBook and absolutely loves it -- however, as I have said I am still waiting to see reliability issues (or just too shy investing as much money on it) :-) Tamas --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .