Usage of Solid State Drives can power an entire country

It has been found out that the use of solid-state drives could allow the world’s data centers to reduce their cumulative electricity consumption by 166,643MWH from 2008 to 2013, according to iSuppli Corp. Gambia produced a little less than that for the entire year of 2006. The energy savings from using SSDs in this application are expected to rise to 57,564MWH by 2013, up from 6,986MWH in 2008, a total of 166,643MWH for the entire six-year period. SSDs are devices that employ NAND-type Flash memory chips for data storage. Although they are more expensive per gigabyte of storage, SSDs use much less energy than hard disk drives, making them an attractive replacement for HDDs in some applications. SSDs entry into the enterprise data centers is a boon for energy consumption and savings when these SSDs replace select short-stroked hard drives in the not-too-distant future.
[Techon]