iPad Does iPad storage capacity increase performance

[pdqgp]

Question since one of our vendors is suggesting we use 32gb vs 16gb iPads because they are telling us the higher capacity units will render graphically intense sets of images faster.

True or false? I thought the processing power even on the iPad is more RAM Related not capacity related.

Thoughts?

 

[jamesryanbell]

I've never heard anything about storage space affecting anything but "storage space".

 

[pdqgp]

I've never heard anything about storage space affecting anything but "storage space".

I haven't either and that's what has me wondering if I'm getting a load of BS.

 

[BeeJee]

I've never heard anything about storage space affecting anything but "storage space".

I haven't either and that's what has me wondering if I'm getting a load of BS.

With a lot of SSD's the higher capacity drives do read and write faster than their lower storage counterparts, so it's not unheard of as far as storage is concerned. The performance jump usually occurs at 256GB and up.

To the OP, the performance of the iPads read and write speeds are the same across the board.

 

[AppleDeviceUser]

The iPad will preform the same weather it is 16, 32, 64 or 128GB. The only difference is the amount of stuff you can store on it.

 

[takeshi74]

Thoughts?

Always consider the source. Your vendor doesn't know what it is talking about. Have them cite their sources for that claim.

 

[mtneer]

I had heard of such claims with HDD's when higher capacity drives had higher platter density resulting in faster access times. But, never heard anything like that with solid state storage devices.

 

[charlituna]

Question since one of our vendors is suggesting we use 32gb vs 16gb iPads because they are telling us the higher capacity units will render graphically intense sets of images faster.

True or false? I thought the processing power even on the iPad is more RAM Related not capacity related.

Thoughts?

I know that if your drive is too full there will be issues if you are using something that needs to download images etc. And I suppose the same could be true of rending assets on the fly. But outside of that I don't know that it really matters how much storage you have. I'm not aware of the iPads being able to virtual memory off the storage the way computers do.

That said, apps are getting bigger all the time and if you can afford to buy the larger devices it might be worth the trouble if you plan to keep them more than one year.