In a few years iPhones & iPads will have more base storage than Macs

[Hexley]

Mac storage has not increased in GB for almost a decade while iPhone & iPads are.

Mac storage instead increased in GB/s throughput when specific use cases benefits from this.

Before 2030s I expect iPhones & iPads to have more base storage than Macs.

I still have some reservation on base memory though

 

[wonderings]

This has never made any sense to me. Apple keeps lowering hard drive space and then charging a fortune to get any decent amount of storage. To me it is simply because they want to sell you on cloud storage. M.2 Drives are incredibly small, nano SD cards can have 1 TB in them and they are smaller then a finger nail. Surely Apple could figure out a way of giving hard drive space without charging the insane amount they do right now.

 

[Hexley]

I wouldnt mind having an all SSD Fusion Drive that combines fast & slow FLASH memory.

So say 256GB SSD that go up to nearly 10GB/s + 8TB SSD 0.6GB/s

 

[Gnattu]

So say 256GB SSD that go up to nearly 10GB/s + 8TB SSD 0.6GB/s

SSD already works this way. Most consumer class SSDs drop speed significantly when the disk is nearly full.

 

[Pressure]

I wouldnt mind having an all SSD Fusion Drive that combines fast & slow FLASH memory.

So say 256GB SSD that go up to nearly 10GB/s + 8TB SSD 0.6GB/s

That doesn't quite make sense in how NAND flash controllers are working. The speed is a question of parallelism and how many channels a given controller has.

The endurance (write cycles) is still determined by the type of NAND flash used, regardless of speed.

 

[UBS28]

Apple is ripping off everybody with upgrades, it is why the made the MAC's non-user replaceable.

You can buy a 2TB PCI-e SSD with 3,500MB/s read and write for less than $200.

 

[Hexley]

That doesn't quite make sense in how NAND flash controllers are working. The speed is a question of parallelism and how many channels a given controller has.

The endurance (write cycles) is still determined by the type of NAND flash used, regardless of speed.

I'm not a SSD expert as you can plainly see.

My assumption with SSD pricing is based on but not limited to per GB & GB/s. As such I'd want few GB for fast SSD & a few TB for slow SSDs.

This was the premise of the Fusion Drive fast storage for most often used files mated with slow storage for infrequently used files.

 

[Hexley]

Apple is ripping off everybody with upgrades, it is why the made the MAC's non-user replaceable.

You can buy a 2TB PCI-e SSD with 3,500MB/s read and write for less than $200.

I'd love some competition to force price downs.

I would not mind paying nearly $400 for 2TB NVMe SSDs