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> throughput of the internal SSD on the new MacBook Pros at 3GB/s will be 6 times faster than SATA III Yep, really want to see Anandtech's take on it. It's goi
by icanhackit 10y ago
> throughput of the internal SSD on the new MacBook Pros at 3GB/s will be 6 times faster than SATA III
Yep, really want to see Anandtech's take on it. It's going to blur the line between memory and storage - at those speeds frequent writing to the swap file probably won't matter. A few people might have to eat their words when the reviews are out.
- jeroenhd 10y agoI'm not sure if they really "blur the line". Speed wise, the new SSDs are coming closer and closer to RAM, but latency wise they're still miles off. There's still a lot to be done before SSDs can truly rival with memory.
- icanhackit 10y ago> I'm not sure if they really "blur the line". But isn't this the ultimate idea behind NVMe? By using PCIe in parallel it gets to the point where you can rely on nonvolatile memory to be more of a system workhorse than merely a storage system. Apple seems to have an idea of where they want to go - just look at the last two iPhones, the 6s and 7. They've had around 1/2 to 3/4 the amount of RAM of other flagship devices while having stupid-fast storage and in real-world tests they outperform their competitors for load times and responsiveness.