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Review disputes power-savings potential of solid state drives

By | July 9, 2008, 9:59am PDT

Summary: I’ve been as guilty as the next person about talking up solid state drives (or SSDs, as they are unfortunately called by the techno-babblists) as a wonderful device for reducing power consumption AND weight in notebooks. And any other system for that matter. But, fact is, I don’t have any review capabilities. So, I feel [...]

I’ve been as guilty as the next person about talking up solid state drives (or SSDs, as they are unfortunately called by the techno-babblists) as a wonderful device for reducing power consumption AND weight in notebooks. And any other system for that matter. But, fact is, I don’t have any review capabilities. So, I feel obliged to point to this great article by CNET that reviews several SSDs from some of the better-known memory and drive manufacturers. I guess you could call this one a mythbuster.

The debate is far from over, but the benchmarking world will have a field day with this issue as we work out just how much SSDs really can help. Definitely read this one.

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Heather Clancy is an award-winning business journalist with a passion for green technology and corporate sustainability issues.

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Writing publicly about what the high-tech industry is actually doing to help itself and the world get greener or more sustainable is one way I figure I can contribute more meaningfully to said effort. I am also a big OMG-kind-of-fan of smart leadership, which is why the goodly folks who publish this blog let me go on about this topic and why I am always on the hunt for forward-looking business management ideas.

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Heather Clancy

Heather Clancy is an award-winning business journalist with a passion for green technology and corporate sustainability issues. Her articles have appeared in Entrepreneur, Fortune Small Business, The International Herald Tribune and The New York Times. In a past corporate life, Heather was editor of Computer Reseller News, where she was a featured speaker about everything from software as a service to IT security to mobile computing.

Heather started her journalism life as a business writer with United Press International in New York. She holds a B.A. in English literature from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, and has a thing for Lewis Carroll.

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