expiredDC52NV posted Feb 25, 2023 07:48 AM
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expiredDC52NV posted Feb 25, 2023 07:48 AM
Active Military/Vets: Apple Mac Mini w/ M2 Chip, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD
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Did you see the videos on real world usage? 99% of the people can barely tell the m2 256 has a slower drive. It only shows up if you regularly move 50gb files daily. This guy shows it from a graphics design or photography perspective.
If you do regular dev builds as a programmer then you aren't using macOS, Linux instead and a have a different setup so you don't have macOS overhead. Alex zeskind.
https://youtu.be/_rgeCXm5uwY
Of course there are many other YT influencers showing artificial benchmarks. But very few day in the life of videos which show the real difference.
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I read your comment and it seems (non technical person) reasonable? Is there a reason you deleted?
The minis with larger ssds use two sticks running in raid 0 which essentially doubles their speeds, meaning 2x faster transfer speeds, loading content, and more.
Probably not a big deal though if you're mainly browsing the internet and for general productivity.
A RAID is defined as a Redundant Array of Independent/Inexpensive Disks. It was developed as a quick fix around the stagnant cost of memory at the time. Mind you SSDs and magnetically manipulated stacked vertically polar platter tech most likely was a not a theory during the RAID concept onset. It's advantage was also that it maintained it's directories as the OS recognized it as a single disk (at least in their config). In today's world, the development of things like RAID-5 (my fav) has continued and now tends to focus on data integrity and speed, rather than memory cost.
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