@Anton , I think you mean, "..up to 3.3 times the TBW rating of it's predecessors" or maybe, "up to 3.3 more TBW than it's predecessors." The sentence is, "with an up to 3.3 higher TBW rating over predecessors."
eMMC is perfectly okay in a fair number of PC usage applications where cost matters and speed does not such as absolute lowest end, cost-hypersensitive laptops. Windows 11 is okay on 4GB of RAM supported by ~64GB of eMMC if tasks aren't demanding.
Unless the only thing you are doing is using the calculator, a 4GB/64GB eMMC config is horrendously slow. Even basic word documents will slow that machine to a grinding halt.
That's just BS. eMMC is still faster than HDD in random access, and about equal in sequential. 4GB/eMMC works perfectly fine for SBCs. Even RPi4 can open word without grinding to a halt, and that's not even using UHS-I.
Because I've actually used systems like that for a number of years (since 2GB RAM and 32GB eMMC Bay Trail solutions hit the market) and do currently, I can safely say from experience that is quite an exaggeration.
"Given that the remaining devices using eMMC storage fall into the simplistic and inexpensive category..."
There's a lot of industrial and control equipment that use eMMC and hardly qualifies as simplistic and inexpensive. Maybe that statement is true in the limited scope of the industries you're familiar with, but that doesn't make it true globally.
The cheapest Steam deck comes with a 64GB stick of m.2 2230 eMMC. It is slotted into the m.2 NVMe connector. It is possible to have user replaceable eMMC, it's just that hardly anyone does it.
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ballsystemlord - Wednesday, September 27, 2023 - link
@Anton , I think you mean, "..up to 3.3 times the TBW rating of it's predecessors" or maybe, "up to 3.3 more TBW than it's predecessors."The sentence is, "with an up to 3.3 higher TBW rating over predecessors."
meacupla - Thursday, September 28, 2023 - link
I would be fine with eMMC, if it didn't come soldered on absolutely everything. Especially Chromebooks.m.2 2230 eMMC is a thing.
PeachNCream - Thursday, September 28, 2023 - link
eMMC is perfectly okay in a fair number of PC usage applications where cost matters and speed does not such as absolute lowest end, cost-hypersensitive laptops. Windows 11 is okay on 4GB of RAM supported by ~64GB of eMMC if tasks aren't demanding.TheinsanegamerN - Thursday, September 28, 2023 - link
Unless the only thing you are doing is using the calculator, a 4GB/64GB eMMC config is horrendously slow. Even basic word documents will slow that machine to a grinding halt.dotjaz - Thursday, September 28, 2023 - link
That's just BS. eMMC is still faster than HDD in random access, and about equal in sequential. 4GB/eMMC works perfectly fine for SBCs. Even RPi4 can open word without grinding to a halt, and that's not even using UHS-I.PeachNCream - Friday, September 29, 2023 - link
Because I've actually used systems like that for a number of years (since 2GB RAM and 32GB eMMC Bay Trail solutions hit the market) and do currently, I can safely say from experience that is quite an exaggeration.dwillmore - Thursday, September 28, 2023 - link
"Given that the remaining devices using eMMC storage fall into the simplistic and inexpensive category..."There's a lot of industrial and control equipment that use eMMC and hardly qualifies as simplistic and inexpensive. Maybe that statement is true in the limited scope of the industries you're familiar with, but that doesn't make it true globally.
TheinsanegamerN - Thursday, September 28, 2023 - link
GOOD control equipment should have replaceable storage, which eMMC isnt.meacupla - Thursday, September 28, 2023 - link
The cheapest Steam deck comes with a 64GB stick of m.2 2230 eMMC. It is slotted into the m.2 NVMe connector.It is possible to have user replaceable eMMC, it's just that hardly anyone does it.
dwillmore - Thursday, September 28, 2023 - link
In the SBC market, there are at least two 'standards' for removable eMMC modules.Kamen Rider Blade - Thursday, September 28, 2023 - link
eMMC has a reason to exist on budget devices.