So have been looking for drives for an upcoming (somewhat power consumption oriented) project and
literally all u2 drives are between 15w and 25w each, i am planing to use 4-6 drives for redundancy that would be over 100w in ssds at load!
M2 on the other hand with comparable specs (tbw, nand type, iops and seq) use like not even 1w according to specs,
why is there this extreme difference in power draw for similar specs?
is this just because the longer cable / connection?
for the u2 drives what usage can be expected at idle / low load - os idle?
Thinking of using a x16 to 4x m2 slot riser board and just going m2 bc from what i have seen the only real benefit of u2 would be hotswap when used with sff front bays, given there are m2 ssds with decent performance and several pb of tbw (like the mte220)
Also what do you think of those u2 to m2 adapters, would they have a huge impact on power draw or just combine the best of the two types?
(https://www.amazon.de/StarTech-com-M-2-auf-U-2-Adapter/dp/B073W65QX6)
Thanks for any input
Edit:
Should have mentioned, looking for around 2-3tb and 300k-500k iops / drive
Sources / List with power draw: List of Intel SSDs - Wikipedia
literally all u2 drives are between 15w and 25w each, i am planing to use 4-6 drives for redundancy that would be over 100w in ssds at load!
M2 on the other hand with comparable specs (tbw, nand type, iops and seq) use like not even 1w according to specs,
why is there this extreme difference in power draw for similar specs?
is this just because the longer cable / connection?
for the u2 drives what usage can be expected at idle / low load - os idle?
Thinking of using a x16 to 4x m2 slot riser board and just going m2 bc from what i have seen the only real benefit of u2 would be hotswap when used with sff front bays, given there are m2 ssds with decent performance and several pb of tbw (like the mte220)
Also what do you think of those u2 to m2 adapters, would they have a huge impact on power draw or just combine the best of the two types?
(https://www.amazon.de/StarTech-com-M-2-auf-U-2-Adapter/dp/B073W65QX6)
Thanks for any input
Edit:
Should have mentioned, looking for around 2-3tb and 300k-500k iops / drive
Sources / List with power draw: List of Intel SSDs - Wikipedia
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