iPhone 13 mini More storage = faster iPhone?

[Silly John Fatty]

I'd like to get the iPhone 13 mini, and my plan was to get the 128 GB model, as I won't need more space than that.

But I remember that higher storage often means better read & write speeds. And that's one thing that is important for me, especially because I plan to keep the device for a long time.

So now I'm wondering if I should get more storage, just because of that? What do you think? Will it be faster?

 

[sack_peak]

Seeming Apple will never build a mini ever again why not max out storage to future proof?

Make sure that phone is good until year 2034?

 

[ctjack]

It will be faster but not necessarily smth noticeable.

The only pro side of going big if you gonna use 80gb+ on your phone: write speeds take a nose dive from 1250mbs to 239mbps when the memory is full.

 

[Silly John Fatty]

Seeming Apple will never build a mini ever again why not max out storage to future proof?

Make sure that phone is good until year 2034?

That's more dependent on software updates imo, I want to keep up with these. But with larger storage, the phone might swallow these updates easier. I don't want it to become laggy at some point.

I'm also hoping Apple will release a smaller phone in the coming years, so I was hoping this 13 mini would be a temporary solution (okay, every iPhone you buy is one).

It will be faster but not necessarily smth noticeable.

The only pro side of going big if you gonna use 80gb+ on your phone: write speeds take a nose dive from 1250mbs to 239mbps when the memory is full.

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying, could you repeat this? Do you mean that on the 128 GB model, if I used 80 GB, the write speed would go down to 239 mbps?

 

[mattopotamus]

You are not going to notice a difference unless you are seriously close to maxing out your storage.

 

[ctjack]

That's more dependent on software updates imo, I want to keep up with these. But with larger storage, the phone might swallow these updates easier. I don't want it to become laggy at some point.

I'm also hoping Apple will release a smaller phone in the coming years, so I was hoping this 13 mini would be a temporary solution (okay, every iPhone you buy is one).



I'm not sure I understand what you're saying, could you repeat this? Do you mean that on the 128 GB model, if I used 80 GB, the write speed would go down to 239 mbps?

If you filled your 128GB up to 110-120GB then yes, your write speed will go down to 239 mbps from 1250mbps.
If you carry 100+ gb then advisable to get the next tier storage.
Otherwise even though 1 TB drive is faster than 128GB, you would not notice any difference in real life if you are not filling them more than 50-80%.

For example: had SE2020 64gb and Iphone 11 128gb both with the same A13 chip and internals.
SE2020 became laggy because i had 60GB on it, while switching to iphone 11 felt much faster - even though the internals are the same but this time it was not full to the brim.

 

[snipr125]

Yes larger storage technically means faster read/write speeds due to parallelism. Basically this means the SSD has more room to move data around in the free part of the SSD if this makes sense.