We’ve always heard that solid state drives really were better for the environment (and your power bill), but evidently we’ve grossly underestimated just how much less power these things consume compared to traditional HDDs. Or either this report is just glorifying the numbers, one. According to new research from iSuppli, the use of SSDs could allow “the world’s data centers to reduce their cumulative electricity consumption by 166,643 Megawatt Hours (MWH) from 2008 to 2013.” Image courtesy:  iSuppli CorpSo,