About a month ago I started having issues with my MacBook Pro’s Superdrive. Every now and then, when I inserted a CD or DVD, the drive would make a ticking sound. Over time the noise got worse and the drive began randomly ejecting the disk. Finally, about a week ago the drive refused to mount [...]

According to Tom’s Hardware, SSDs (solid state disks) consume more power than conventional platter-based hard drives. It seems the theory behind this is that when a SSD is in use it consumes power at its maximum not matter the activity, whereas a platter-based hard drive consumes its maximum power only when the head is moving.
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