SSDs Cause More CO² Emissions Than HDDs
Even energy consumption lower over 5 years
By Jean Jacques Maleval | August 10, 2022 at 2:01 pmTo read this article from Basic Tutorials, click on:
SSDs cause more CO² emissions than mechanical HDDs
They ultimately aimed to compare an HDD and SSD with a storage capacity of 1TB over a period of 5 and 10 years and concluded that while the energy consumption of SSDs was lower (56.9kWh for an SSD over 5 years of use vs. 183.9kWh for an HDD), the combined CO² emissions were higher over the same period.