Hello everyone,
I am super excited to get a Shield TV in the very near future. I just want to get the fastest experience possible with the most space. At first, I wanted the Pro with 500GB, but after reading and hearing about other people's experience, the 16gb standard version with the external SSD like Samsung 850 EVO and it's fast.
So which would be better do you guys think? I know the 2017 hasn't come out with the SSHD yet, so we have no way to compare the SSHD vs a SSD, but I have a feeling that using the SSD as the internal drive for the 16gb Shield might be faster than the Pro 500GB internal. It would be only $70 more to buy Shield 16gb ($200 + $170 = $370) vs Pro ($300). :good:
Your thoughts gents (and maybe ladies)?
Thanks,
-Marcus
Yes it's slow to format, and it's even slower to install from what I gathered though a SSD would only be a breath faster than the normal SSHD in the Shield TV. My guess here is the SATA interface is the Bottleneck here? But, it seems somewhat comical to compare either to eMMC though.
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I just had a question. I dont have any solid data on this yet but is there a mSATA SSD in the TAB 3? If there is would it be possible to open the tablet and swap it out? I know it wont be that easy..
I have seen 64GB mSATA SSD's go for cheap and 128GB mSATA's for that matter.. The cost of SSD have fallen tremendously so.. If all it takes is to make a backup of the OS on to a MSD card then make the swap reinstall the OS then that would be awesome..
I tried searching to see if anyone has done anything similar on here but it seems like everyone sticks with the hardware and mods the crap out of the software..
Any help would be great thanks again.
Tim
tooshea45 said:
I just had a question. I dont have any solid data on this yet but is there a mSATA SSD in the TAB 3? If there is would it be possible to open the tablet and swap it out? I know it wont be that easy..
I have seen 64GB mSATA SSD's go for cheap and 128GB mSATA's for that matter.. The cost of SSD have fallen tremendously so.. If all it takes is to make a backup of the OS on to a MSD card then make the swap reinstall the OS then that would be awesome..
I tried searching to see if anyone has done anything similar on here but it seems like everyone sticks with the hardware and mods the crap out of the software..
Any help would be great thanks again.
Tim
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No it won't work because mobile devices use a kind of storage that is called flash storage or nand storage
The memory in our devices is soldered directly to the board not in a msata socket for them to do so would make the device too thick. And currently 8 16 32 is the sizes available the difference is in the density of the chip the put on the board. Think of it as the soldered a micro SD card to the board. That said I have seen some cheap tablets just use a second sdcard as system memory.
Anyone know anything of a performance difference between the two storage sizes? Normally I wouldn't think there would be any difference at all, but according to Android authority (lol) they seem to think the 32 gig would perform slightly slowly compared to the 128 gig because of the iPhone 7s performance difference between the two sizes.
Also, completely irrelevant to the above question.. do you think using a USB type c thumb drive to store and access vr content and movies will be alright? I preordered a 32gig and I'm expecting delivery this week and don't want to cancel my order for the 128 gig lol
I dont think there would be a visible difference. Sometimes larger storage use more channels so they have a small bandwidth and iops boost.
The answer is no. We're not using cheap components on the Pixel. Apple to maximize profits went with a cheaper 32 GB storage chip with a lower classification. There are good quality class chips for 32 GB versions, Apple just didn't use a good one on their 32 GB chips, but did use a higher class speed for their 128 GB. Pixel has the same class across both.
In my opinion the s912 looks unmatched with
64bit 1.5ghz Octacore chipset
3gb ram
32gb storage
What even comes close right now for $100?
Nothing.
The remix mini PC sold on their site only has 2gb ram and I think next to zilch storage space.
Jide is launching a Kickstarter too little too late
https://www.kickstarter.com/project...ugat-powered-all-in-one-device?token=bfc75bfd
Similar specs for over $100.
By the time it ships it will be old. The s912 I can buy today for less.
ive been messing around making user builds (roms) for the nexus 6 and the pixel xl, and ive gotten comfortable enough to start releasing my work, but before i do, i would like to get my desktop upgraded and actually set up.
Right now my system and /home is on a low rpm western digital hdd.
Im upgrading the pc all the way around, but my questions are regarding the disk drives. I have 2 of the exact same western digital blues, and a sandisk ssd.
western blue 500gb hdd
western blue 500gb hdd
sandisk 125gb ssd
Im aware disk speed is definitely the biggest bottleneck when it comes to building, so Here are my questions.....
How much space do you recommend when building for two devices while making builds weekly?
Do you think i should dedicate my ssd to /home?
Should i put the system on the ssd, and dedicate a hdd to the /home?
It appeared that I couldn't use the ssd for my home directory because (at a rough estimate) I'll be using around 200gb.
I found the best solution that gives me the best results.
I have split the windows and linux system on the ssd, I then ran the two hdd's in raid 0 and slpit the raid for /home and windows data.
OK So I bought a Nvidia Shield TV thinking it would have the 16GB of storage as previous versions and no it doesn't the storage got decrease to 8GB which is a joke and the RAM got decreased to 2GB which is also a joke. I don't know what Nvidia was thinking, they even removed the USB ports.
Anyways I used a 16GB Micro SD card I had to expand the internal storage and installed a bunch of apps. But now I want to upgrade the Micro SD card to a bigger one without losing the apps or data.
I read of ways of cloning an Android Micro SD card to a bigger one without losing the data. Will this work for the Shield TV if I formatted the Micro SD Card as System Storage?
You should have bought the Pro then
Not sure what nvidia was thinking when they did this. The os is 32bit, low space and ram not very future friendly. The price is not exactly cheap either.
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im shocked they even went with a 16gb model? i thought new one would use tegra x2 or xavier and have 4gb ram with 32gb and 64gb options. shame they dont bring back the hard drive. at this rate the best shield tv device is the original 2015 model that has a hdd.
next model will have 640kB of memory and external floppy drive and we will still buy it