2020-01-25 16:00:49
Power Measuring Kingston A400 480 and Samsung MZ7LN128
In this session I measured a Kingston A400 480 which is much better than the smaller sizes. It's as great as the Patriot Burst 480: Very fast and very low power consumption. Additionally an old (used) Samsung 128 was measured.
Kingston A400 480
480 GB means actually 937703088 sectors.
- Idle 0.3 W
- Read 0.5 W
- Write 0.5 W
- Read all sectors: 20m31.041s (371 MiB/s)
- Write all sectors: 23m12.412s (328 MiB/s)
Samsung MZ7LN128
128 GB means actually 250069680 sectors.
- Idle 0.28 W
- Read 0.97 W, max 1.59 W
- Write 1.57 W
- Read all sectors: 5m45.429s (353 MiB/s)
- Write all sectors: 13m32.761s (150 MiB/s)
Values overview
| SATA SSD | r pow (W) |
w pow (W) |
r spd (MB/s) |
w spd (MB/s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ADATA SU800 256 | 1.4 | 2.2 | ||
| Corsair Force LE 120 | 0.58 | 0.58 | ||
| Kingston A400 120 | 0.51 | 1.03 | 371 | |
| Kingston A400 480 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 371 | 328 |
| Kingston A400 240 | 0.52 | 1.08 | 371 | 290 |
| Patriot Burst 120 | 0.54 | 0.54 | 371 | 86 |
| Patriot Burst 240 | 0.52 | 0.52 | 369 | 327 |
| Patriot Burst 480 | 0.51 | 0.5 | 371 | 328 |
| Samsung MZ7LN128 | 0.97 | 1.57 | 353 | 150 |
| Sandisk Z410 120 | 0.7 | 1.5 | ||
| Verbatim Vi500 S3 240 | 0.59 | 0.98 | 211 | 117 |
| Verbatim Vi500 S3 480 | 0.84 | 1.13 | 359 | 129 |
| WD Green 120 | 0.96 | 1.3 |
| 2.5 HD | r pow (W) |
w pow (W) |
r spd (MB/s) |
w spd (MB/s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seagate ST1000LM048 | 2.7 | 2.6 | ||
| Toshiba MQ02ABD100H | 2.6 | 3.0 | ||
| WD WD10SPZX | 1.62 | 2.47 | 256 |
| 3.5 HD | r pow (W) |
w pow (W) |
r spd (MB/s) |
w spd (MB/s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seagate ST1000DM010 | 2.69 | 2.29 | ||
| Toshiba DT01ACA100 | 2.86 | 2.94 |
Method
Measuring environment is explained in power measuring ADATA SU800. The speed as logged and calculated in latest measurements was simply done by taking the time for reading and writing the whole SSD in relation to its size.
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