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Originally Posted by techguyone
It will bother people, though I don't know why. It's a big bottleneck to your system, you can't beat nice built in storage compared to External. I suppose it'll matter if they place a hefty price increase on 32GB & Above.
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I have to say that is one aspect lots of people overlook, even most tech review sites. The internal storage is an order of magnitude faster than any micro SD card, especially with the new-gen SSD-class flash in the S6. While probably not needed for my large MP3 collection it does massively affect phone performance, even more so than CPU speed in some cases.
My problem though, is that I have the need to transfer the contents of my storage between several different devices and you simply cannot beat the speed or convenience of pulling out the memory card and plugging it in my other phone, especially if the reason you need to do it is because the first phone's battery has died and is non-changeable.
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Originally Posted by Stephen
I don't think it will bother most folk. With 32GB being the smallest one its plenty of space for most folk.
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Given the sales of the iPhone I would agree that 'most folk' or general mainstream consumers wouldn't be very bothered.
But on the other hand the Galaxy series gained most of their fame through popularity with a niche market of geeks, power users, and non-mainstream consumers. I myself am one of those with specific needs that every previous Galaxy phone has been capable of until now. It's that small, loyal community that is likely to feel alienated.
And to be fair, something doesn't need to bother most folk to be a big issue. NVidia's recent GTX970 memory scandal as well as Lenovo's Superfish shenanigans prove that. Large tech companies ride as much on reputation as they do on the silent majority of indifferently satisfied customers.
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Originally Posted by BenMcr
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While the new phone's storage most certainly is fast, I cannot see how it can possibly relate to the lack of removeable storage. Previous phones as shown are already an order of magnitude faster than most microSDXC cards and tbh, you can get SD cards that write nearly twice as fast as even the S6's internal memory.
Regardless removable storage is typically used for large media collections anyway, and not the OS, apps, or paging, thus benefits little from 300MB/sec reads. So what if you can read a movie in 3 seconds, it'll take you 3 hours to watch it...