Was thinking of getting a bigger #eMMC module for my #PinebookPro, but the one that was recommended was $50 for 256GiB which is a little... ridiculous.
I think I'm just going to wipe the 60GiB stock eMMC with #pmOS, fix up the loose screws, and get a 256GB microSDXC card for extra storage.
I can't imagine any flash being more power hungry than any spinny disk.
Well, let's see SSDs use SATA as the interface, NVMes are... PCI, right? I'm not sure what eMMC uses.
@rl_dane eMMC uses MMC, the same thing SD Cards are based on
Actually MMC was better imo
Wasn't MMC the super thin competitor to CF? I never used one, so my memory [pun intended] isn't very clear.
Ah, that's it!
That's right, e?MMC is what eventually became SD.
So does that mean that an eMMC chip in a laptop has the same kind of bus as the SD?
No wonder it's so slow. :P
@rl_dane In theory I think SD cards have been tweaked and changed since then. So SD cards might be faster than eMMC, at least with the proper reader.
The proper reader being the key word, though, because like 99.99% of SD Card readers, even built in ones, are absolute unimaginable steaming piles of flaming rubbish.
I daily drove an OS off of a microSD card for several months back in highschool during the pandemic; it's not as bad as you might think, as long as you're not trying to do anything super demanding.
It would only be for an encrypted /home partition, so shouldn't be too terrible! ;)
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