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Post Date: 2014-11-11
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    Posted: 11 Nov 2014 at 4:27pm
When I finally order my pc I'm probably just going with a large standard hard drive anyway, but would you say SSDs run hotter?
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SSDs run much, much cooler. They'll use around 3-4 Watts when active and idle below 0.1 Watts.
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Ah, nice to know, just asking as I've seen a few posts around the web about them running ridiculously hot.
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That info is bogus wherever you're getting if from. The "hottest" SSDs I've seen are the ones that plug into the PCIe slots on the board and have PCIe-to-SATA bridges, RAID switches, and multiple NAND controllers; they'll be active around 20-25 Watts and idle down in the single digits.
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Thanks. I'll probably still go with a larger standard HD as game sizes get more and more space consuming and I'd rather not have to calculate when I should uninstall things. If I had a SSD I'd want to run my games off of it for the faster load times and not just have the SSD for the OS install.
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I use my ssd for games and the os as well as other programs
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