Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Apple and Valve sneakily downgrade their SSDs”.
The week of ssd shenanigans featuring the m2 13-inch macbook pro and the steam deck early reviews of the m2 13-inch macbook pro have shown. The ssd in the base model is half the speed for reads and 30 slower for writes than the same laptop with an m1. This appears to be due to the m2 version having a single 256 gigabyte nand flash module instead of two 128 gig ones, the ladder config can enable reading and writing in parallel across both chips increasing performance. Unfortunately, the slow ssd also appears to act as a bottleneck. Thanks to apple silicon’s, unified memory, so the base 8 gig m.2 model can take close to twice as long to complete certain intensive tasks compared to the same laptop with 16 gigs of ram.
This is the kind of thing that just like apple has no excuse for, like they shamelessly just charge a lot which is fine, but then they should just build a lot like. It should just be good. Yeah meanwhile, valve also stealthily downgraded the ssd in new steam deck models. Lowering bandwidth from pcie gen 3×4 to buy two valve says there is no impact on performance, but that still sucks valve.
You should still have said something because people rely on independent reviews to get an idea of how a product is. It can be expected to perform in the real world and you you went. You participated in that ecosystem. You you seated review units so now to maintain your transparency. You you have to talk about how the new ones aren’t going that how that wasn’t, representative of what you’ve actually delivered now i believe you that there’s no impact on performance, because i mean i’ve seen games launch off of a flipping micro sd card without there being A big impact on performance, so yeah gen 3×2, is still flipping a lot more bandwidth than a micro sd card, but it still sucks also also dec, a deck designer said uh lawrence lawrence yang, i think uh hold on. Why don’t? I just click the thing yeah lawrence yang deck designer said: please do not do this in response to a mod that was posted, replacing the dex 2230 sized ssd with a larger 2242 size drive as it apparently affects the cooling situation. The original modder apparently agrees, which i think is pretty funny that is mod at your own risk.
I am taking risk and working on this as a proof of concept. That’S really funny uh, i mean yeah fair enough. It’S worth noting that lawrence did not say not to cut a hole in the back of your steam deck and bolt a cooler to the back of it.
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