I would like to know what the other members think of the new trend of using eMMC storage in low end tablets and chrome/netbooks.
I had purchased a netbook recently, knowing about the limitations of this hardware.
If you do not know, eMMC is basically cheap flash storage. Thus it comes with a read/write cycle ceiling, most people estimate this to be somewhere around the 3 year mark with regular use. In most cases eMMC is not replaceable, unless you're willing to attempt it yourself. Further eMMC i/o is slower than a traditional drive.
However, the benefit is that the storage and build was very cheap, $279 for a 14" Windows 10 netbook.
So, what do you think of this trend? Bad idea? Do you own any computers with eMMC flash?
I don't mind so much, the limitations, as this computer is really just for browsing and simple word processing. But I figure most of the general public is not aware of these limitations, so probably the actual lifecycle of these electronics will leave most people quite unhappy (being that I am writing this from a 10 year old laptop which is, more or less, still working)
I had purchased a netbook recently, knowing about the limitations of this hardware.
If you do not know, eMMC is basically cheap flash storage. Thus it comes with a read/write cycle ceiling, most people estimate this to be somewhere around the 3 year mark with regular use. In most cases eMMC is not replaceable, unless you're willing to attempt it yourself. Further eMMC i/o is slower than a traditional drive.
However, the benefit is that the storage and build was very cheap, $279 for a 14" Windows 10 netbook.
So, what do you think of this trend? Bad idea? Do you own any computers with eMMC flash?
I don't mind so much, the limitations, as this computer is really just for browsing and simple word processing. But I figure most of the general public is not aware of these limitations, so probably the actual lifecycle of these electronics will leave most people quite unhappy (being that I am writing this from a 10 year old laptop which is, more or less, still working)