Power Efficient Enterprise SSDs (SATA or NVMe)

[ca3y6]

No you can add smaller drives if you want. I didn't care for them myself so I didn't, but it's no problem at all.

 

[mattventura]

Did you happen to find any that are M.2 2280 and fully support ASPM? I have a few Micron and Transcend drives that have PLP, but no ASPM. They increase the CPU's idle power by more than that of the drive itself, so I'm looking for alternatives. Sadly the system in question doesn't support SATA on its M.2 slot, so it has to be NVMe.

 

[nautilus7]

Hi, no I haven't find any m.2 drives yet.
Which microns have you tested? Maybe the 7450 support aspm?

 

[mattventura]

Hi, no I haven't find any m.2 drives yet.
Which microns have you tested? Maybe the 7450 support aspm?

Just the 7300.

It seems most consumer M.2 drives support ASPM, but not PLP. Since I'm looking more for boot drives, I'd settle for a drive that is enterprise-grade and has ASPM, but lacks PLP.

 

[thigobr]

Would 32GB or 64GB be enough for a boot drive? Intel Optante M10 supports ASPM and they don't need PLP to be safe.

 

[mattventura]

Would 32GB or 64GB be enough for a boot drive? Intel Optante M10 supports ASPM and they don't need PLP to be safe.

That could work, yeah.