Optical drive power consumption: any reviews or user tests published?

[Icm76]

I believe 5.25" ODDs are very power hungry and very much a weak link if you're trying to build a power efficient system, but there's almost no data available re power consumption! nothing in manufacturer specs and only a handful of very old articles (e.g. Tom's Hardware) So far the best options I can see are to use laptop or external ODDs, but there isn't any comparison of those either.

Has anyone see any recent tests or comparisons? or done their own testing?

[El Wayneo]

Isn't it about 40W when its burning and 10 - 15 idle ??

[Icm76]

I think that's pretty close to the numbers I had in the back of my mind for 5.25", not really ideal if you're using a picoPSU or similar, and frustrating in that it double the idle power of a entire low power Sandy Bridge system.

[El Wayneo]

Yeah thats only off my head though, a slim (laptop) drive would be a lot lower, less than half i reckon.