Re:Apple's M1 Pro, M1 Max SoCs Investigated
by lowbloodsugar on Monday October 25, 2021 @02:12PM
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The NVME drive you found is 2400MB/s. MacBook Pro peaks at 7400Mb/s. So your pick is 1/3 speed.
The $143 SSD you found is 540Mb/s. So < 1/10th the speed.
Re:Apple's M1 Pro, M1 Max SoCs Investigated
by AnthonyMouse on Monday October 25, 2021 @06:16PM
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The NVMe drive I found is 2600MB/s. It also isn't the bottleneck in general.
Both the Samsung and the Apple SSDs are just a bad fit for a machine like this. For a non-I/O bound workload it's paying money for nothing. For a read-bound workload, the machine has 64GB of RAM, so you'd need a working set larger than that to have to care, and that's pretty rare. For a write-bound workload, at those speeds, you're going to melt a consumer-grade SSD and need an enterprise one. So you don't want the faster one in this machine; either it's not worth the price or it won't survive that amount of write load.
https://www.newegg.com/g-skill-64gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82...
Here's a 2TB SSD for $143:
https://www.newegg.com/leven-2tb/p/1B0-016A-00002?Item=9SIAW...
But then you don't have PCIe 4.0 and it's 4x16GB instead of 2x32GB and it's SATA instead of NVMe.
Here's how you spend >$700 on 64GB of memory:
https://www.newegg.com/ballistix-64gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N...
$894!
But wait, here's the same thing for $310:
https://www.newegg.com/ballistix-64gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N...
It's a different color. Apparently that's what you get for the extra $584.
There's getting cheaper stuff and then there's just paying a different amount of money.