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rayiner on Sept 23, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox

Doing all this work is also probably burning battery life. An SSD can use several watts while writing, versus as low as 30-50 milliwatts at idle (with proper power management).

dclowd9901 on Sept 23, 2016 | [–]

Can confirm closing chrome typically doubles my battery life.

eikenberry on Sept 23, 2016 | [–]

+1. This is why I use PSD (mentioned above) to mitigate this. A RAM cache will use much less power than constant disk writes.

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