Laptop Heat

How much would a SSD help with Laptop heat?

I know that most of the heat in a laptop is generated by the CPU, but how much would it help with any heating issues to use a SSD instead of a conventional hard drive? would the SSD also have a noticeable effect on noise or power consumption?

Public Comments

1. yes to all. SSD's don't move = less power, no noise. but they cost alot.
2. SSD's also dont break when you drop your laptop. If you drop a laptop with a HDD you will likely loose all your data.
3. SSD would be an excellent, yet expensive upgrade. The heat will be less, power consumption will be less, speed will increase significantly, and will stay consistent even if the drive is full. I highly recommend it, but a 200GB drive cost about $400.00. I personally would wait another year before getting one. The price should be reasonable by then.
4. HDD uses up maybe around 12 percent of your battery power (depends on what you're doing) - so if SSD cut this to 50, you'd only save about 5 or 6 percent overall. Backlighting is the one you can adjust - cut that right down, and take consumption from maybe 4watts down to 1 watt. SSD will make the system silent - but unless you're willing to shell out maybe 7000 US dollars for a nice 256GB drive, you're talking about a small one. If this is a concern, I have to say - you should have bought a netbook and saved any serious computing for your desktop. Netbooks can last at least 6 to 7 hours watching movies and doing all kinds of stuff. Maybe by next year, Ubuntu will have a normal start-up time of around 15 seconds, they're working on ten seconds. With SSD, now it is around 13 seconds - so next year it might be down to 5 seconds - it's getting exciting. SSD is the future, not the present.