@meldrik@qaz I’ve got a bunch of older, smaller drives, and as they fail I’m slowly transitioning to much more efficient (and larger) HGST helium drives. I don’t have measurements, but anecdotally a dual-drive USB dock with crappy 1.5A power adapter (so 18W) couldn’t handle spinning up two older drives but could handle two HGST drives.
@meldrik @qaz I’ve got a bunch of older, smaller drives, and as they fail I’m slowly transitioning to much more efficient (and larger) HGST helium drives. I don’t have measurements, but anecdotally a dual-drive USB dock with crappy 1.5A power adapter (so 18W) couldn’t handle spinning up two older drives but could handle two HGST drives.