Update: Toms Hardware have had a slight change of heart on the old “they use more power”.

See Here: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-hard-drive,1968.html

Solid State Drives are basically flash like memory instead of a hard disk thrashing away.

With no moving parts they do generally give better performance and are silent.

However there are several nails in SSD’s coffin.

1) Cost: If I were to put an SSD into my Dell XPS M1530 it would come at a significant cost premium (see main picture).

2) The long thought power savings offered by the “no moving parts” SSD technology just don’t exist in the real world.

The Guys over at Toms Hardware did some power consumption tests using a Dell Latitude D630 and found using SSD could cost you up to an hour of battery life compared to a 7200 rpm traditional Hard Disk.

Link: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-hdd-battery,1955.html

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