if you're looking for a cheap laptop you've probably seen that many of them
have something called emmc storage but
that spec sheet typically doesn't do a good job of explaining exactly what that
is so is it some extreme cost cutting
measure that you should avoid like the plague or kidnapping for emmc actually
be a good idea well emmc actually stands
for embedded multimedia card which Probably sounds like something you'd
insert into a digital camera back when that was popular and it turns out that
that's actually kind of true the original MMC came out back in 1997 and
was indeed common in Standalone digital cameras MMC was later improved upon and
had copy protection added with the result being the more familiar SD card
but the original MMC standard stuck around the emmc storage and that laptop
that you've been eyeballing is essentially an MMC version that's
soldered directly onto the laptop's motherboard instead of being an actual
card that you can eject so it's kind of
like a a little built-in SSD but why do
lower end laptops use emmc instead of just putting in an actual SSD
considering how cheap and common ssds have become well even though ssds are
now standard in most laptops rather than the luxury they used to be emmc is still
the cheaper option the nand flash memory that actually stores the data inside
emmc doesn't have the same longevity as what you'd find inside of a proper SST
that is to say it wears out faster due to simpler firmware and lower Quality
Hardware emmc also doesn't tend to give you as much storage capacity as many
laptops that include it only have 32 or
64 gigabytes for you to work with which isn't a lot for Windows 11. but on the
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
it's still solid state storage that's going to give you many of the same
benefits because of its cost Effectiveness laptop manufacturers have
been able to replace those painfully slow mechanical hard drives you used to
find in budget models with emmcs and make no mistake although these low-end
laptops still come with slimmed down processors and limited amounts of RAM
those spinning hard drives were the
biggest bottleneck in such systems just a few years ago so swapping those out
with emmc removes this bottleneck without breaking the bank from that
perspective emmc storage is an absolute win
but emmcs top out of around 400 megabytes per second of sequential read
speeds with some implementations being well below that meaning they'll be
significantly slower for large file transfers and even a cheap SATA SSD but
more importantly random reads which is a more relevant stat for day-to-day use
will also be around half of what you get with an SSD or even a bit lower however
here's the thing to remember unless you're really trying to put a cheap
system through its paces it shouldn't end up mattering too much
laptops with emmc are meant for more you
know watching YouTube typing reports wasting time on social media those kinds
of use cases that won't tax the PC all that much trying to do anything heavy
like gaming streaming or content creation will probably push the system's
other components well beyond their limits as well
so for a cheap laptop emmc makes a lot
of sense that you wouldn't be buying it for demanding applications anyway nor
would you be hitting it so hard that it would quickly wear out but Anthony what
about the base model steam deck that thing is meant for gaming and it has
emmc well emmc is mostly going to slow
down your load times in those games on the steam deck but shouldn't affect
actual game performance too much once you get in sometimes just having a bit more
patience can save you a significant amount of money I can't even tell you
how much money I've wasted on Express food delivery just so I can get my
chicken poppers before halftime ends well I don't watch sports but
still the same thing thanks for watching guys like dislike check out some of our
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