Would you buy a motherboard with storage soldered on board?

[fargonaz]

At least it is feasible at this time.  Also, all my SSDs, even the very first 64GB I bought 7 years ago, are still running perfectly.  I can't say this about my spinners

[Jurrunio]

you mean those with 16GB optane? Depends on price, I will be buying a USB to M.2 adapter for it to use it as a mobile storage media anyway

[BobVonBob]

Why would I? That's basically what M.2 is. I guess there's a case for it with super low end stuff that uses eMMC storage, but that's about it.

 

Edit:

If you mean Optane motherboards like Gigabyte's -OP series then sure, those are actually pretty neat. And they're cheaper than a separate Optane module.

[TempestCatto]

Only if I can remove and replace it. If it's soldered, it can kindly fuck off. We buy and build PC's with parts we choose, we want, we need, we love. We can't be held back by stuff like that. I mean personally, even on a laptop I hate it (though really small form factors I can understand). I think the enthusiast community would disown any product (maybe even manufacture) like that for desktop PC's.

 

[Bananasplit_00]

Like it comes with some SSD space, or you mount the drives to the mobo? M.2 is a very nice form factor so if its the latter then hell yah, i have a 250gb NVME drive sitting doing nothing atm

[fargonaz]

8 minutes ago, BobVonBob said:

Edit:

If you mean Optane motherboards like Gigabyte's -OP series then sure, those are actually pretty neat. And they're cheaper than a separate Optane module.

Nope, more like x4 NVMe.

[fargonaz]

8 minutes ago, TempestCatto said:

Only if I can remove and replace it.

 

Changed the title. Thanks.

[BobVonBob]

2 minutes ago, fargonaz said:

Nope, more like x4 NVMe.

In that case only if it's removable like @TempestCatto mentioned. Basically just a motherboard + SSD bundle.

[fargonaz]

Admittedly this thought comes about because of my new interest in SFF, due to my job taking me mobile and away from the desk for extended periods.

[fargonaz]

4 minutes ago, BobVonBob said:

In that case only if it's removable like @TempestCatto mentioned. Basically just a motherboard + SSD bundle.

What if the base price of the motherboard only went up 10.00?  The controller can be implermeted in the NB and comodity priced memory can be soldered on where space is available.

[BobVonBob]

3 minutes ago, fargonaz said:

What if the base price of the motherboard only went up 10.00?  The controller can be implermeted in the NB and comodity priced memory can be soldered on where space is available.

Maybe? Depends how much memory you get for that money and how much I trust the motherboard, since you get super screwed if your motherboard dies and all your data goes with it as opposed to just losing the motherboard.

[fargonaz]

1 minute ago, BobVonBob said:

Maybe? Depends how much memory you get for that money and how much I trust the motherboard, since you get super screwed if your motherboard dies and all your data goes with it as opposed to just losing the motherboard.

Just 10.00.

[SupaKomputa]

A motherboard with an onboard storage? what motherboard is it?

[fargonaz]

1 minute ago, SupaKomputa said:

A motherboard with an onboard storage? what motherboard is it?

It's hypothetical at this point in time.

[Dedayog]

Like a Macbook

 

 

[SupaKomputa]

Putting a drive on the motherboard wont benefit anyone, adds cost to the manufacturer and low demand on the users.

Harddrive tech is evolving fast, in term of technology and also capacity.

Would you risk putting a say 64gb onboard ssd and will be absolete once your competitor put 96gb on theirs a week later?

Just look at the smartphone industry, everyone is racing to give bigger numbers that we don't need.

12gb of ram on a phone? who needs that?

[SupaKomputa]

34 minutes ago, fargonaz said:

Admittedly this thought comes about because of my new interest in SFF, due to my job taking me mobile and away from the desk for extended periods.

M.2 is virtually cost no space. Its more logical than giving free onboard ssd.

[fargonaz]

2 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

Putting a drive on the motherboard wont benefit anyone, adds cost to the manufacturer and low demand on the users.

Harddrive tech is evolving fast, in term of technology and also capacity.

Would you risk putting a say 64gb onboard ssd and will be absolete once your competitor put 96gb on theirs a week later?

Just look at the smartphone industry, everyone is racing to give bigger numbers that we don't need.

12gb of ram on a phone? who needs that?

Umm, for 10.00 - 256GB. 

 

I'll agree that I, me, myself, don't need that much on my phone.  In fairness, PC and 'android' phone storage are 2 completely different creatures.

[SupaKomputa]

10 for 256? i'll take that, as long as i can install windows in it, use it as boot disk. Everything else on a separate disk.

But only if it also has another m.2 or at least a couple of sata port. i don't wanna stuck in that disk forever.

[fargonaz]

2 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

10 for 256? i'll take that, as long as i can install windows in it, use it as boot disk. Everything else on a separate disk.

But only if it also has another m.2 or at least a couple of sata port. i don't wanna stuck in that disk forever.

That is the idea. Not limited to windows either. Yes this is an otherwise 'normal' mini-itx board.