A typical modern SSD reads at 500 MiB/s, consumes 3 watts when reading, and 0.3 watts when idle.
A stick of DDR3 RAM consumes about 3 watts, just sitting idle.
The power consumption from prefetching is minor compared to that of the RAM.
A typical modern SSD reads at 500 MiB/s, consumes 3 watts when reading, and 0.3 watts when idle.
A stick of DDR3 RAM consumes about 3 watts, just sitting idle.
The power consumption from prefetching is minor compared to that of the RAM.