HyperX Savage 240GB SSD Review

HyperX Savage SSD Power Consumption

Having low power consumption is important to many enthusiasts and while Kingston did give us power numbers on the HyperX Savage specifications sheet, they failed to let one know what drive those numbers are for.

HyperX Savage Power Consumption: 0.39W Idle / 0.5W Avg / 1.4W (MAX) Read / 4.35W (MAX) Write

We figured we’d give it a quick look to see what is going on with the HyperX Savage 240GB drive they sent us. We measured the power at idle and load power states using both sequential and random read/write test data.

When it comes to an idle power state we found the HyperX Savage 240GB drive uses just 0.44 Watts of power on our Intel X99 desktop platform. When it comes to peak power we found the drive hit 4.87 Watts during sequential write operations, which makes this the most power consuming drive of the nine 240-256GB SSDs that we have tested in recent months. In fact, all of our power numbers were higher than what Kingston reported and in the past our numbers have been spot on with other manufactures.

It should be noted that we are testing power consumption on an Intel X99 desktop platform and therefore we can’t enter the lowest idle power state of slumber as even with Host Initiated Power Management (HIPM) and Device Initiated Power Management (DIPM) you have to have a mobile chipset to look at SSD Slumber power. Some sites have modified notebooks and measure power from an external monitoring system, but we have not done that and measure on a desktop system.

Kingston informed us that slumber and DevSleep (DEVSLP) are not enabled on this drive, but that really only matters for laptop users that are worried about battery life.