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The PM1643 16TB SSD is about 7 times as expensive as 16TB disks. (2600 vs 360, euro)

The PM1643 actually uses more than twice as much power in use (r or w) than a spinning disk. Idling they use the same 5W.



Is that twice the power at full bandwidth? Because if so, then the SSD is still more efficient, because those reads/writes will be over a lot more than twice as fast, and the SSD can go back to idling.


I guess that is active power usage, but considering how much faster SSD's are compared to HDD's I doubt that scales with amount transferred (esp for random read/writes). So what would the power usage be when the total over active work time is counted?


How much more read/write performance do you get for twice the energy usage? A performance per watt comparison would be interesting here.


Samsung quotes 148 MB/s per watt for the PM1643, for sequential transfers. Hard drive performance tops out around 270 MB/s and draws something less than ~9.5W, so the SSD is 3-5x more efficient for sequential transfers. For random IO, it's several orders of magnitude difference in performance and efficiency.

The most power-efficient consumer SSDs are an order of magnitude more efficient for sequential transfers than the Samsung PM1643. Eg: https://www.anandtech.com/bench/SSD18/2460


Depends on use. Queued random access 4kiB block read IOPS can be 3 orders of magnitude different. (120 IOPS vs 500k IOPS for example)




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