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POWER CONSUMPTION
For our power consumption testing, we have the drive connected to the system as a secondary drive. To record the wattage, we use an Amprobe AM-270 multimeter connected in line with the 5v power on our SATA power cable to the drive. The multimeter records the min/max amperage draw from the drive over our testing period.
We also record the drive’s sequential and random read and write power draw using Iometer. During power testing we have AHCI link power management (HIPM and DIPM) enabled. We then take the values recorded and calculate the wattage of the drive. Some of the results may seem high compared to a standard notebook HDD because as these are peak values under load. When we see average power draw, SSDs are still more power efficient because they only hit max power for a short period of time.
Active power consumption is rated for 2W and idle is rated for 0.7W. We were surprised that idle consumption was far lower than the rating at just 80 milliwatts. Active power consumption is not the same as peak, which is seen in the graph above. During our testing the highest consumption we were able to reach 6.88W, which was under sequential writes. During sequential reads it draws up to 2.70W on average. During 4K QD 1 consumption we see a similar trend to the sequential draw with the 4K read averaging 1.20W and 4K write averaging 3.48W. Overall, these results are similar to what we have seen with other SM2246EN controller based SSDs.
REPORT ANALYSIS AND FINAL THOUGHTS
Edge Memory has designed a great product for a very niche market. If you are looking for a 1.8″ drive for your system or server, there are very few options to choose from, especially when compared to the mass quantities of 2.5″ drives out there. Now, if you factor in a need for an SSD, let alone a 1TB SSD in that size, you may have given up before release of the Edge Boost Pro.. Everything else out there maxes out at about 500GB. Edge have taken that to their advantage and built upon their current product line to expand their capacity options to 800GB, 960GB, and 1TB by utilizing Silicon Motions very popular SM2246EN SATA controller and Micron’s L85A NAND flash memory.
This combination has delivered some very good performance in our testing, and it was pretty much where we expected it to be. Sequential reads hit a high of 562MB/s and reads hit 461MB/s. In testing IOPS not only did we see the rated values (74K read/76K write), but write hit over 80K IOPS! PCMark Vantage gave us a good indication of real world usage performance, overall it achieved scores similar to some of the best 2.5″ SATA drives out. PCMark 8 testing showed that this drive is more optimized for high read and low write workloads as well with performance similar to that of the Mushkin Reactor. And finally, during our power test we saw some very good idle and read power consumption, combine that with the DevSleep support and this SSD proves to be a good choice for mobile systems that could use this form factor SSD.
For those looking for this storage density in such a small form factor for server usage, the Dell PowerEdge 13G R730xd, for example, can utilize up to eighteen of these. Therefore, a total of 18TB can be had in the same amount of space that four 3.5″ HDDs would typically use and best of all it is all fast access flash storage with 5-years warranty! It isn’t the best SSD out, but it does come out on top for its form factor and target market.
We award the 1TB Edge Boost Micro SSD our innovation award because fitting 1TB of SSD storage in a 1.8″ form factor is practically unheard of as of this time!
Check out the Edge Boost Pro Micro SSD on Amazon!
If you’re after 1.8″ drives, it would make more sense (from price perspective) to just buy a msata to 1.8″ sata converter card . You can get them for a few dollars off ebay. Much cheaper than buying 800$+ part.
Otherwise its nice to see more manufacturers going away from sandforce to something more respectable like siliconmotion.
Whether 1TB mSATA product of 2bit MLC is cheaper than this?
In sandforce2281, it is not put out 1TB of capacity.
You have 840evo for 360€ using TLC.
Or if you for some reason cant have TLC (you would _really_ need a good reason not to take TLC) apperently there is a M6PRO msata, thats also 1TB (cant find it on their website, but i see it selling for 600€).
840Evo I will exclude from a short life.
MSATA of M6Pro is suspicious information of 1TB product.
Number basis of memory chips, 1TB in 2bit MLC will feel like difficult.
But if M6Pro mSATA 1TB can buy at 600 euros, I likely can rest assured prefer over there.
>Number basis of memory chips, 1TB in 2bit MLC will feel like difficult.
Its not. 256GB MLC packages (so 4 of them makes 1TB) are not that uncommon. 128Gbit dies and 16 of them in a single package is perfectly achieveable with MLC.
>840Evo I will exclude from a short life.
Where are you getting the idea, that 840evo has short life ?
>Where are you getting the idea, that 840evo has short life ?
I’m sorry.
The life was short, it’s a 840.
Certainly I was life test in the Japanese site.
Like 840Evo is, SMART value becomes trough by writing to 171TB position in 120GB. It’s much longer lasting likely to if 1TB.
At 1TB, you’re likely gonna get 1PB of writes, before you even reach smart at 0%. But even when you do reach 0%, its still gonna work just fine, because its just a predetermined value for segmentation purposes.
And you have to have a really good reason to write soo much data.