NVME SSD DRAINING LAPTOP BATTERY

[Saiyan32]

Help post
Nvme ssd is reducing laptop battery backup...
I thought nvmes draws ultra low power 

And does anyone know any solution?

I used to get 5-6 hours now i get max 4 hours 

It is a transcend 220s nvme and my laptop is dell inspiron 3593

[CerealExperimentsLain]

It's quite possible this is just a coincidence and that you're just noticing the battery is losing capacity about the same time you added the NVME drive.  If you want a better look at your battery life, you can get Windows to generate a 'Battery Report' that'll show you the designed capacity of the battery and it's max capacity reached with every charge, letting you easily see it's current capacity and how it's declined over time.

https://www.groovypost.com/howto/generate-battery-report-windows-10/#:~:text=You can easily generate a,\System32 as battery-report.

I have no idea why this involves going to the command line to then make Windows 10 build an HTML file that you look at.  This is super useful information for knowing if there's something 'wrong' with your laptop or if it's just been a few years and you need to drop in a new battery.  Why is this not easier to acess?

Posted from my laptop which is on it's second battery since purchasing it in 2017  

[Universes]

What drive were you using before switching to the Transcend 220s? Try switching back to the old drive and see if the battery life changes. 

Did anything else change, software or hardware, between changing the drives and when yo noticed the decreased battery life?

[Saiyan32]

29 minutes ago, CerealExperimentsLain said:

It's quite possible this is just a coincidence and that you're just noticing the battery is losing capacity about the same time you added the NVME drive.  If you want a better look at your battery life, you can get Windows to generate a 'Battery Report' that'll show you the designed capacity of the battery and it's max capacity reached with every charge, letting you easily see it's current capacity and how it's declined over time.

https://www.groovypost.com/howto/generate-battery-report-windows-10/#:~:text=You can easily generate a,\System32 as battery-report.

I have no idea why this involves going to the command line to then make Windows 10 build an HTML file that you look at.  This is super useful information for knowing if there's something 'wrong' with your laptop or if it's just been a few years and you need to drop in a new battery.  Why is this not easier to acess?

Posted from my laptop which is on it's second battery since purchasing it in 2017  

My laptop is less than one year old when i purchased it... 

So it is quite new..for the battery to age..

No idea whats happening here..

Even when the laptop is idle.. Battery is drained

[Saiyan32]

13 minutes ago, Universes said:

What drive were you using before switching to the Transcend 220s? Try switching back to the old drive and see if the battery life changes. 

Did anything else change, software or hardware, between changing the drives and when yo noticed the decreased battery life?

I always used hdd that came with the laptop 

It is a brand new laptop

Less than a year old

14 minutes ago, Universes said:

What drive were you using before switching to the Transcend 220s? Try switching back to the old drive and see if the battery life changes. 

Did anything else change, software or hardware, between changing the drives and when yo noticed the decreased battery life?

I always uses the hdd that came with the laptop... The laptop is less than a year old...so it is quite a new...

Didn't swap the drive i uses both hdd and ssd now..no other hardware changed 

 

[CerealExperimentsLain]

3 minutes ago, Saiyan32 said:

My laptop is less than one year old when i purchased it... 

So it is quite new..for the battery to age..

No idea whats happening here..

Even when the laptop is idle.. Battery is drained

Try getting the battery report and looking at it

[Saiyan32]

4 minutes ago, CerealExperimentsLain said:

Try getting the battery report and looking at it

Oka

Lemme check.. 

[Bombastinator]

58 minutes ago, Saiyan32 said:

Help post
Nvme ssd is reducing laptop battery backup...
I thought nvmes draws ultra low power 

And does anyone know any solution?

I used to get 5-6 hours now i get max 4 hours 

It is a transcend 220s nvme and my laptop is dell inspiron 3593

I’m not sure the SSD thing isn’t a red herring.  Coincidence is not causality. Could be for example your batteries are just getting old.  Batteries have a finite number of places to hold electrons.  The number is ridiculously large, but still finite. Every time a battery gets drained it loses a bit of life.  The things just don’t last forever.  I don’t know how old your machine is, so that only might be it. There’s a bunch of different ways to measure battery capacity and each has its own issues.  One of the most common ones is MaH. It has abusability by marketers problems but it’s popular.  When batteries wear the total MaH goes down.  The more wear the further down it goes. 

[Saiyan32]

24 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

I’m not sure the SSD thing isn’t a red herring.  Coincidence is not causality. Could be for example your batteries are just getting old.  Batteries have a finite number of places to hold electrons.  The number is ridiculously large, but still finite. Every time a battery gets drained it loses a bit of life.  The things just don’t last forever.  I don’t know how old your machine is, so that only might be it. There’s a bunch of different ways to measure battery capacity and each has its own issues.  One of the most common ones is MaH. It has abusability by marketers problems but it’s popular.  When batteries wear the total MaH goes down.  The more wear the further down it goes. 

Laptop is less than one year old

..quite new..so dont think battery eould wear out that quickly

[Bombastinator]

6 minutes ago, Saiyan32 said:

Laptop is less than one year old

..quite new..so dont think battery eould wear out that quickly

Shouldn’t anyway with normal use and assuming the company didn’t get conned with a shipment of counterfeit batteries.  Seems unlikely though.  Manufacturers are generally the best places to find decent batteries.