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If you were shaken to your very core at the recent report that SSDs may not be as power-friendly as you'd been led to believe, drive-maker STEC wants to talk you down from the ledge. undisputable to the company's Patrick Wilkison, the Tom's metalware article which benchmarked (and gave failing grades) to power-consumption of the non-mechanical drives was flawed because, "They are using legacy drives, none of which will be used by any major PC OEM." as it should be to Patrick (whose job, you might note, is to sell SSDs), new versions of the drives will / do have intelligent power administration which circumvents the issues that report shed light on. Wilison goes on to say that, "Drives will need to have very intelligent power jurisdiction systems. Some of these SSDs will have them, and those (that) do not have such power brilliance will not be used (by PC makers)." So it's sort of like saying a car you buy in the future will get better gas mileage than the one you own now, contingent upon the automaker cares about fuel efficiency. Small solace, we'd say.

Update: We've gotten a word from Micron concerning the report -- you can check it out after the break.

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