I'm working on a personal project for an embedded application using a Nvidia Jetson Nano and a Seeed Studio A206 carrier. I need to select a M.2 2280 NVMe SSD to use for this, as it is limited to 16GB of on board storage, and I need a large disk to store high resolution images/video on. I've been looking around at low end consumer class disks as performance and data durability isnt a large concern but power consumption and capacity are. The application will ultimately be battery powered, but even at this development stage, i'm rather power limited with the 24 watt PSU to the point of Seeed Studio recommending disks to be 512GB or less as size generally correlates to power consumption.
Unfortunately most consumer class disks have horrible datasheets which dont list much more than peak bandwidth and maybe QD32 IOPS. The best disk i've ran in to so far are Seagate Barracuda Q5 2TB disks at a supposed 3.3 watts "average" power. For comparison disks like Samsung 980 Pro 2TBs are 6.1 watts average/7.2 watts peak.
Has anyone ever had to embark on a similar search and have any recommendations? I'm open to used enterprise class disks if they're available on eBay for relatively cheap, but am not really looking to drop a ton of money on this project. Thanks.
Unfortunately most consumer class disks have horrible datasheets which dont list much more than peak bandwidth and maybe QD32 IOPS. The best disk i've ran in to so far are Seagate Barracuda Q5 2TB disks at a supposed 3.3 watts "average" power. For comparison disks like Samsung 980 Pro 2TBs are 6.1 watts average/7.2 watts peak.
Has anyone ever had to embark on a similar search and have any recommendations? I'm open to used enterprise class disks if they're available on eBay for relatively cheap, but am not really looking to drop a ton of money on this project. Thanks.
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