[SOLVED] Ssd or sshd power consumption

[Gamer_X]

I want a secondary storage for my laptop and have found two a Samsung ssd 1tb and an sshd firecuda 2tb but I am confused about which to choose speed is not a major concern but I've heard that sshd require more power and tend to heat up is this true?

thank you

 

[popatim]

Both heat up.
SSD's use less power because they have no moving parts. The faster the drive's performance is, the more heat it creates.
SSHD is a normal harddrive with a small SSD integrated which the drive uses as a cache buffer. Heat is not much different then a normal HDD.

I assume this is a Samsung 860 or 870 you're looking at? Since you don't need performance, you might want to look at the Crucial BX500 and save yourself another $20 (roughly)

 

[hotaru.hino]

To put some actual data to this, here's a spec sheet for a Seagate 2.5" hybrid drive and one for the Crucial MX500 SSD

Basically the hybrid drive uses on average 1.7W, the MX500 on average uses 0.07-0.15W depending on the size. However, 1.7W isn't a lot of power, so any heat it generates is easily dissipated. Also it'll only really heat up if the drive is in prolonged use.