Only if you download faster than the hardware can write it to flash. Which is nobody.
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iPhone 8/8 Plus/X SSD storage speed test 64/256GB
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Only if you download faster than the hardware can write it to flash. Which is nobody.
That's not how the updates work.
There's two parts:
1) The device downloads the IPA (a zip file).
2) The device then extracts the IPA.
Both 64GB and 256GB devices will do #1 the same. The 256GB device will do #2 faster.
It works more like a RAID0.
On what basis are you saying the iphone storage works like a RAID 0 set up??
In order for raid 0 to work you need multiple disks and a RAID controller - Data is stripped across multiple disks in order to increase I/O performance. I used to have my home desktops set up as RAID0 before the days of when SSD's were mainstream in order to increase performance, but I haven't bothered since I installed SSDs a few years ago because its not really needed due to the breakneck speeds you get with SSD's.
Can you please provide a link to some hard proof to indicate the iphones are set up as RAID0 lol
Higher storage usually means more parallel chips. Usually double the storage, doubles the write speed. i.e. "NAND controllers" are basicly "raid controllers", each NAND chip gets a bit of the data, the more chips you have, the faster the storage will be (assuming the same type of NAND chip).
If you have 8x8bit NAND, the controller can write 8 bytes in one single go (sequential). If you only have 4x8bit NAND (half the storage), the operation will be twice as slow, as the controller needs to write twice to each NAND chip.
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NAND controllers are not basically RAID controllers, two are very different, but I do understand why you made the comparison.
Who spent 4 hours @ walmart only to come home without a phone? This guy!
Ok, well now that I can put that behind me, here's where I'm @...
Old and busted (6S Plus) vs New and delicious (8 Plus)
6S Plus restore time ~ 20+ minutes
8 Plus restore time ~ 6 minutes
How much of that's the storage and how much is the old Plus, I don't know. I do know that I won't be doing that all the time. But I'm also free to pack in the last week's 12 NFL games and a ridiculous amount of media without feeling stressed or limited. I'm not 100% I'll keep it, but it IS only $6.66 extra a month, but what child didn't want be Darth Vader when they all growed up?
I would really like to see a detailed comparison of actual usage scenarios between sizes, ie moving gigs of files to an fro, updates, backups, restores, installs, etc.
Ok, well now that I can put that behind me, here's where I'm @...
Old and busted (6S Plus) vs New and delicious (8 Plus)
As well you should. Now please follow sir brad, he's going to give you a private tour of the pit of misery! 64GB Heathen...pfft! As person number 5 out of 50 @ wally world I had to make the easy choice of white 64GB or black 256GB. Although I only use 30GB on the old Plus, I can't handle the contrast of black and white...too distracting. I could return it for the 64GB when they have stock, but I don't think I will...more on that in a bit.
I'm not mr money pants, so I don't have an 8 64 and an 8 256, but here's what I noticed between the 6S Plus and 8 Plus:
6S Plus restore time ~ 20+ minutes
8 Plus restore time ~ 6 minutes
How much of that's the storage and how much is the old Plus, I don't know. I do know that I won't be doing that all the time. But I'm also free to pack in the last week's 12 NFL games and a ridiculous amount of media without feeling stressed or limited. I'm not 100% I'll keep it, but it IS only $6.66 extra a month, but what child didn't want be Darth Vader when they all growed up?
Would like to hear more. Not being a butt head or troll, searching around and testing myself to see if it's worth keeping.
If you read just a few lines up, the difference between 64 6S Plus and 8 Plus doing a restore shocked me. The 6S Plus likes to tell me 7 minutes, but then take triple that. The 8 Plus told 6 minutes and was done in 6 minutes. I appreciate that kind of honestly in a phone...like a loyal dog.
I would really like to see a detailed comparison of actual usage scenarios between sizes, ie moving gigs of files to an fro, updates, backups, restores, installs, etc.
Double the mint, double the pleasure. :0
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