Team Group GC Pro 2 TB

[lexluthermiester]

Compared to 1-2 watts, which is where nand needs to be, no moving parts. Gen4 is higher but not at these levels. The reported idle has no excuse, it doesnt need to run at those power levels at idle.

I'm not saying it's not high, but it's only 12W under gen 5 MAX load. The graphs show that most of the time it isn't going to hit that or even close. So for the performance/price balance, most people could live with the extra wattage, assuming a good cooling solution, which a lot of mobo's come with standard.

 

[Onasi]

Compared to 1-2 watts, which is where nand needs to be, no moving parts. Gen4 is higher but not at these levels. The reported idle has no excuse, it doesnt need to run at those power levels at idle.

I don’t think I have ever seen an NVMe drive hit 1-2 watts on full load, that’s SATA territory unfortunately. Still, I would say that anything sub-5 watts is more than acceptable these days. 12 watts is a meme, however, agreed.

So for the performance/price balance, most people could live with the extra wattage, assuming a good cooling solution, which a lot of mobo's come with standard.

Being fair, “most people” wouldn’t benefit from the sustained speeds of Gen 5 drives at all and would be better off with a cheaper and cooler Gen 4 drive.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Being fair, “most people” wouldn’t benefit from the sustained speeds of Gen 5 drives at all and would be better off with a cheaper and cooler Gen 4 drive.

True! And running a gen5 drive at gen4 speeds would reduce power usage as well.

I don’t think I have ever seen an NVMe drive hit 1-2 watts on full load

Mine does. Enterprise drives like mine can use in the range of 6 to 7 watts under load. It's a 22110 MLC drive with a capacitor bank built onboard for power loss situations. I have one of these for all of me main systems.

 

[InVasMani]

True! And running a gen5 drive at gen4 speeds would reduce power usage as well.


Mine does. Enterprise drives like mine can use in the range of 6 to 7 watts under load. It's a 22110 MLC drive with a capacitor bank built onboard for power loss situations. I have one of these for all of me main systems.

It might actually behave better too due to not throttling and not stressing the controller as hard on sequential performance might allow it to eek out some better random I/O and queue depth performance if you ran it at gen 4 speeds. That depends I guess if the controller is throttling or not. It would depend I think on sustained loads and just how big a issue throttling is or not though. Haven't actually seen someone deliberately try to test that behavior though.

 

[lexluthermiester]

It might actually behave better too due to not throttling and not stressing the controller as hard on sequential performance might allow it to eek out some better random I/O and queue depth performance if you ran it at gen 4 speeds. That depends I guess if the controller is throttling or not. It would depend I think on sustained loads and just how big a issue throttling is or not though. Haven't actually seen someone deliberately try to test that behavior though.

That is possible. Wouldn't be the first time something like that has happened either.