Quote:
Originally Posted by RobertSmalls
If you want to be fair, you'd include the HDD enclosure's idle power consumption as well, which is probably the 1-3W standby draw of its power brick.
|
I have a 1TB laptop drive that, I learned the hard way, doesn't fit into 99% of laptops out there. There are a few USB-SATA converters that can power laptop drives without a brick, and chances are that a device that small and light isn't going to be able to saturate even a laptop drive's bandwidth, so a desktop drive might be overkill.