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eMMC is just another name for soldered on flash storage. Its no different than a SSD.
by stefan_ 7y ago
eMMC is just another name for soldered on flash storage. Its no different than a SSD.
- steve19 7y agoThe interface is slower. https://www.howtogeek.com/196541/emmc-vs.-ssd-not-all-solid-state-storage-is-equal/ https://www.howtogeek.com/196541/emmc-vs.-ssd-not-all-solid-...
- waspleg 7y agoThe school system I work for has thousands of devices with these. They're basically like an SD card for a camera soldered to the board. They do not have the wear leveling and other shit a real SSD has. They're slow, (comparatively) unreliable and small. Because they're on the board a bad one means a new mobo which is generally not cost effective so it's done. I hate them and the cheap shitty hardware that they come with. I'd like to point out that these came before Chromebooks but Chromebooks are also using them because they use the same shitty hardware as the cheapest Windows devices.
- Marsymars 7y agoEven high-end, well-regarded Chromebooks use eMMC storage - e.g. the “base” $1k+ Pixelbook models.
- fulafel 7y agoThe current eMMC spec is for 400 MB/s, plenty fast for low-end laptop. The devil is in the details, as with other kinds of SSD.
- nyolfen 7y agoit’s slower, has a higher error rate, and cannot be replaced or upgraded. get an ssd if possible; i got a toshiba chromebook a few years ago and it’s a perfectly capable little netbook with galliumos and a 128gb ssd after i upgraded it
- ThrowawayR2 7y ago> "Its no different than a SSD." It is flash based but it isn't a SSD. The read/write performance is less and the rated write lifetime is much lower as well.