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if you're looking for a cheap laptop you've probably seen that many of them

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have something called emmc storage but

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that spec sheet typically doesn't do a good job of explaining exactly what that

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is so is it some extreme cost cutting

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measure that you should avoid like the plague or kidnapping for emmc actually

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be a good idea well emmc actually stands

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for embedded multimedia card which Probably sounds like something you'd

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insert into a digital camera back when that was popular and it turns out that

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that's actually kind of true the original MMC came out back in 1997 and

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was indeed common in Standalone digital cameras MMC was later improved upon and

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had copy protection added with the result being the more familiar SD card

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but the original MMC standard stuck around the emmc storage and that laptop

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that you've been eyeballing is essentially an MMC version that's

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soldered directly onto the laptop's motherboard instead of being an actual

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card that you can eject so it's kind of

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like a a little built-in SSD but why do

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lower end laptops use emmc instead of just putting in an actual SSD

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considering how cheap and common ssds have become well even though ssds are

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now standard in most laptops rather than the luxury they used to be emmc is still

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the cheaper option the nand flash memory that actually stores the data inside

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emmc doesn't have the same longevity as what you'd find inside of a proper SST

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that is to say it wears out faster due to simpler firmware and lower Quality

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Hardware emmc also doesn't tend to give you as much storage capacity as many

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laptops that include it only have 32 or

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64 gigabytes for you to work with which isn't a lot for Windows 11. but on the

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drawbacks of emmc so severe that we recommend staying away from it entirely

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remember about emmc is that even though it isn't the same as a SATA or NVMe SSD

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it's still solid state storage that's going to give you many of the same

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benefits because of its cost Effectiveness laptop manufacturers have

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been able to replace those painfully slow mechanical hard drives you used to

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find in budget models with emmcs and make no mistake although these low-end

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laptops still come with slimmed down processors and limited amounts of RAM

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those spinning hard drives were the

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biggest bottleneck in such systems just a few years ago so swapping those out

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with emmc removes this bottleneck without breaking the bank from that

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perspective emmc storage is an absolute win

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but emmcs top out of around 400 megabytes per second of sequential read

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speeds with some implementations being well below that meaning they'll be

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significantly slower for large file transfers and even a cheap SATA SSD but

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more importantly random reads which is a more relevant stat for day-to-day use

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will also be around half of what you get with an SSD or even a bit lower however

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here's the thing to remember unless you're really trying to put a cheap

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system through its paces it shouldn't end up mattering too much

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laptops with emmc are meant for more you

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know watching YouTube typing reports wasting time on social media those kinds

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of use cases that won't tax the PC all that much trying to do anything heavy

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like gaming streaming or content creation will probably push the system's

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other components well beyond their limits as well

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so for a cheap laptop emmc makes a lot

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of sense that you wouldn't be buying it for demanding applications anyway nor

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would you be hitting it so hard that it would quickly wear out but Anthony what

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about the base model steam deck that thing is meant for gaming and it has

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emmc well emmc is mostly going to slow

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down your load times in those games on the steam deck but shouldn't affect

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actual game performance too much once you get in sometimes just having a bit more

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patience can save you a significant amount of money I can't even tell you

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how much money I've wasted on Express food delivery just so I can get my

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chicken poppers before halftime ends well I don't watch sports but

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still the same thing thanks for watching guys like dislike check out some of our

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