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As you may have heard, Micron recently announced its RealSSD™ family of Solid State Drives (SSDs). Beyond the endurance and reliability bonus that a solid state drive offers over ye olde spinning platters, these drives also offer substantial energy savings vs. standard HDD products.

For example, in a notebook, the SSD will consume roughly half the energy of a HDD.  Read: battery life

Now--when compared to enterprise-class HDDs, the SSD consumes about a 1/10th of the energy. Seriously. Read: Savings implemented across an entire enterprise

Why the difference? In the enterprise use, HDD products are higher performance than standard HDDs, but this performance comes at the expense of greatly higher energy consumption.  Not so for SSDs.

So, here’s another solution that adds to the larger energy efficient eco-system. Look for it in hardware coming to you soon.

Justin Sykes, SSD Product Manager, Micron Technology, Inc.

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[Nick]

informative article!