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32GB iPhone 7 Has 8 Times Slower Storage Performance Than 128GB Model (thenextweb.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Next Web: Apple isn't telling you everything about its phones. Few weeks back, GSMArena reported that the 32GB iPhone 7 and 7 Plus had significantly slower storage performance than the 128GB and 256GB models of the device. In a new video, Unbox Therapy's Lew Hilsenteger conducted a series of speed tests that confirm the discrepancy in storage speeds between the different configurations of Apple's phone -- and it turns out the 32GB iPhone is about eight times slower than the larger capacity storage version of the device. For his first test, Hilsenteger used the free PerformanceTest Mobile app to compare the read and write speeds of the iPhone. While there was little difference between the read speeds of the 32GB and 128GB models, there's a huge disparity when it comes to write speed. The 32GB iPhone writes at 42MB per second, which is nearly eight times slower than the 128GB version's 341MB per second. Hilsenteger then performed a real-world speed test, which included transferring movies from a MacBook to the iPhone using a USB cable. While the 256GB model took two minutes and 34 seconds to complete the 4.2GB file transfer, the 32GB iPhone 7 needed a total of three minutes and 40 seconds for the same transmission.
Unless Apple is doing some sort of quasi RAID like read/write access against all available memory chips (vs treating them like a sequential memory space which may end earlier rather than later depending on what memory capacity you selected at purchase time)... why should a higher capacity device have faster read/write times than a lower capacity of the same generation?
If anything, this sounds like another example of Apple attempting to balkinize the market in a way favorable to them and those who are most willing and/or able to pay them the most for devices.
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Two minutes and 34 seconds is hardly eight times faster than three minutes and 40 seconds for the same transmission.
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Well, the 32er model has also 4 times less memory than the 128er model, so it's in no haste to save stuff, it will fill up quickly enough anyway.
When writers use words like that, do they understand what they mean in mathematical terms? I have my doubts.
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